She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her.
Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment
If you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it. Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days. a small working-class town in Massachusetts, a couple of hundred miles from New York City. Couple is also a determiner in spoken American English, and before `more' and `less'. a couple weeks before the election I think I can play maybe for a couple more years. Couple is also a pronoun. I've got a couple that don't look too bad
A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship. The couple have no children. after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home
Two forces of equal magnitude acting in opposite directions in the same plane, but not along the same line
two forces that are equal in magnitude, opposite in direction, and parallel with respect to one another
a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome"
A somewhat ambiguous term For a redox reaction, the combination of the oxidized and reduced species is often called the "redox couple " But it is also used to designate the combination of an anode and a cathode, especially for corrosion cells