Decoupling (utility Regulation)

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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

See also

* Uncoupling (disambiguation)
* Coupling (disambiguation)

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