Decoupling

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