Definition of countermark in English:
countermark
noun ˈkaʊntəmɑːkˈkaʊn(t)ərˌmɑrk
1An additional mark placed on something already marked, especially for increased security.
Example sentencesExamples
- Beside the countermark, this copy is easily distinguished because of the casting marks on the obverse.
- At our last meeting Richard Baker gave another in his series of talks on countermarks or stamps.
- Any earlier coins that show a countermark do not indicate a date when later coins were countermarked.
- On the other hand, the obverse countermarks show a rather careless placement on the imperial portrait.
- These countermarks could have been stamped in about 36 C.E, the period when Pilate left his official post.
- 1.1 A second watermark.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such watermarks are common in papers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and they often have a countermark giving the manufacturer's name and/or date.
- The countermark in the paper of the drypoint The Forge 1871 belongs to the firm De Erven de Blauw c.1822.
Definition of countermark in US English:
countermark
nounˈkaʊn(t)ərˌmɑrkˈkoun(t)ərˌmärk
1An additional mark placed on something already marked, especially for increased security.
Example sentencesExamples
- These countermarks could have been stamped in about 36 C.E, the period when Pilate left his official post.
- Any earlier coins that show a countermark do not indicate a date when later coins were countermarked.
- On the other hand, the obverse countermarks show a rather careless placement on the imperial portrait.
- At our last meeting Richard Baker gave another in his series of talks on countermarks or stamps.
- Beside the countermark, this copy is easily distinguished because of the casting marks on the obverse.
- 1.1 A second watermark.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such watermarks are common in papers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and they often have a countermark giving the manufacturer's name and/or date.
- The countermark in the paper of the drypoint The Forge 1871 belongs to the firm De Erven de Blauw c.1822.