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

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

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