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ˈcounter-ˌcurrent, n.
[f. counter- 3, 6. Cf. F. contre-courant n.]
An opposite current. Also fig.
1684T. Burnet Th. Earth I. 122 They suppos'd one current upon the surface..and under it at a certain depth a counter-current. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. iv. (1856) 29 The great counter-current, which in the North Atlantic borders the Gulf Stream. 1883G. Lloyd Ebb & Flow II. 127 Currents and counter-currents eddied..in her mind. 1936K. Mannheim Ideol. & Utopia iii. vi. 159 As a countercurrent to this, there is Romanticism. 1937Science & Society I. 155 Linguistic development then follows clearly the lines of internationalism... There are the same contradictions manifest, and the same counter⁓currents engendered by extreme tendencies in one direction or the other. |