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Definition of Couplers
1. coupler [n] - See also: coupler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Couplers
Literary usage of Couplers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"There are eight kinds of couplers; viz.: — Manual to Manual Unison eg Sw. to Gt.
8 ... The Manual to Manual couplers connect one manual with another manual, ..."
2. The Law of Interstate Commerce and Its Federal Regulation by Frederick Newton Judson (1905)
"Automatic couplers of different makes.— The amendment of 1903 provides that the
Act shall apply in all cases whether or not the couplers brought together ..."
3. Electric Railway Handbook: A Reference Book of Practice Data, Formulas and by Albert Sutton Richey, William Charles Greenough (1915)
"Automatic couplers and Radial Draft Rigging. There has been adopted as ...
The draft rigging and draw-bar supports for these couplers should be such that, ..."
4. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"An estimated 25 percent of all installed fiber is dark fiber at the time of
installation.87 Connectors and couplers For connectors and couplers in Table 104 ..."
5. A Primer of Organ Registration by Gordon Balch Nevin (1920)
"V ' CHAPTER VI THE USE OF couplers Consideration of those important mechanical
aids known as couplers has been left until this point—as discussion of such a ..."
6. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"That, whatever the relative heights of the couplers, they couple and ... That the
coupling be universal, or readily connecting with all other couplers. 13. ..."
7. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Special rept. on freight couplers and draw bars, under resolve of Men. 19.
(12 same 1880: 62-66.) 1880-1889. Comparative tables of accidents in Mass, ..."
8. A Treatise on the Federal Employers' Liability and Safety Appliance Acts by William Wheeler Thornton (1909)
"Repairing couplers—Other act of negligence aiding negligence with reference to
couplers.—It is the duty of a railroad company after it has equipped the cars ..."