counter-currentn.
An opposite current. Also figurative.
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the world > action or operation > [noun] > contrary operation or action
counterwork1598
counter-motion1606
countercurrence1643
counterworking1664
counter-current1684
counteraction1750
counter-movement1818
counter-agency1831
counter-move1858
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > opposite
back-current1657
counter-current1684
re-current1873
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 122 They suppos'd one current upon the surface..and under it at a certain depth a counter-current.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. iv. 29 The great counter-current, which in the North Atlantic borders the Gulf Stream.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxviii. 127 Currents and counter-currents eddied together in her mind.
1936 K. Mannheim Ideol. & Utopia iii. vi. 159 As a countercurrent to this, there is Romanticism.
1937 Sci. & Society 1 155 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.
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