🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

accoppiamento lasso

Pronunciation / Transliteration: akkoppiamento lasso

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Loose coupling/luːs ˈkʌp.lɪŋ/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'accoppiamento lasso permette di modificare un modulo senza alterare gli altri."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An approach to interconnected systems where each component has, or makes use of, little or no knowledge of the definitions of other separate components.

    "Microservices architectures rely on loose coupling to ensure that a failure in one service does not cascade through the entire system."
  2. 2

    A software design strategy that reduces the interdependencies between modules to maximize flexibility and maintainability.

    "By introducing an event bus, the developers achieved loose coupling between the user interface and the backend processing engines."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the English adjective 'loose' (from Old English lēas, meaning slack or free) and the noun 'coupling' (from Middle English couplen, to join or link). The term emerged prominently in mid-20th-century systems engineering and computer science to describe architectural patterns where components have minimal interdependencies.

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