Couple

Couple ( ) may refer to:

  • Two to five items of a type.
    • Two, Three, Four, Five members of a band.
  • Couple (mechanics), a system of forces with a resultant moment but no resultant force
  • Thermocouple, a type of temperature sensor

Famous quotes containing the word couple:

    “If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    “One is no number, mayds are nothing then,
    Without the sweet societie of men.
    Wilt thou live single still? one shalt thou bee,
    Though never-singling Hymen couple thee.”
    —Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

    “You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze and the boat sank.”
    —J.P. (James Pinckney)