counterpart
nounEtymology
From Middle English conterpart, countre parte (“duplicate of a legal document”), equivalent to counter- + part. Compare Old French contrepartie, itself from contre (“facing, opposite”) (from Latin contra (“against”)) + partie (“copy of a person or thing”) (originally past participle of partīre (“to divide”)).
- inherited from conterpart
Definitions
Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
- Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly.
- Mr. Obama never found a generational counterpart among conservatives in Congress like Paul D. Ryan or Eric Cantor; instead, there was a mutual animosity.
A duplicate of a legal document.
One who or that which resembles another.
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One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
- Her French counterpart attended the meeting via video call.
- The two companies are working together with their respective counterparts in Asia.
- Its incompleteness in this respect makes the timetable of less value than some of its Continental counterparts, such as the French Horaires Mayeux; nevertheless, it is fair value at 5s.
Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
To counterbalance.
The neighborhood
- synonymequivalent
- synonymobverse
- synonymhomolog
- synonymopposite number
- synonympendant
- synonymcounterpart
- synonymparallel
- neighborcounterbalance
- neighborcounterpoint
- neighborcountersign
- neighborcounterweight
- neighborcomplement
- neighborhomotype
- neighborpartner
- neighboralter ego
- neighborspitting image
- neighbordecoy
- neighborsubstitute
- neighbordead ringer
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at counterpart. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at counterpart. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at counterpart
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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