Decoupling

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'''Decoupling''' usually refers to the ending, removal or reverse of coupling.

'''Decoupling''' may also refer to:

==Economics==

* Decoupling (advertising), the purchase of services directly from suppliers rather than via an advertising agency * Decoupling (utility regulation), the disassociation of a utility's profits from its sales * Decoupling and re-coupling in economics, where country's economies are no longer impacted by each other * Decoupling (organizational studies), creating and maintaining separation between policy, implementation and/or practice * Decoupling of wages from productivity, sometimes known as the Great Decoupling * Eco-economic decoupling, economic growth without increase in environmental costs

==Science==

* Decoupling (cosmology), transition from close interactions between particles to their effective independence * Decoupling (meteorology), change in the interaction between atmospheric layers at night * Decoupling (neuropsychopharmacology), changes in neurochemical binding sites as a consequence of drug tolerance * Nuclear magnetic resonance decoupling * Decoupling (probability), reduction of a statistic to an average derived from independent random-variable sequences *Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors, technique for the reduction of body-focused repetitive behaviors

==Engineering==

* Decoupling (electronics), prevention of undesired energy transfer between electrical media ** Decoupling capacitor, most common implementation technique * The amelioration of coupling in computer programming

==Other==

* Uncoupling of railway carriages