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Noun(1) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current(2) actions counter to the main group activity

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(1) Gases flow countercurrent to mass flow in the cement manufacturing process.(2) Throughout the history of nau00efve, misleading realism, there has been a countercurrent of pseudorealism, which has satirized the shortcomings of this mode we have been conditioned to unquestioningly accept.(3) These films are a steady countercurrent to the seemingly endless paeans to World War II, a recognition that there have been quite a few wars and generations since the u2018greatest.u2019(4) When I went through the Brandenburg Gate, I had to push through a countercurrent of girls parading their lovely selves through a temporary narrow passage of plywood.(5) But while my peers reveled in their social ascent, a countercurrent of despair lay directly in my particular path.(6) In the months, or sometimes even years, between flows, a silent countercurrent moves in the opposite direction.(7) While we've seen a flood of antiwar activity over the past eight months, we've also witnessed a powerful countercurrent of political repression.(8) A Clinician's Guide is part of a growing countercurrent within psychiatry, psychology, and allied disciplines, aimed at redressing the shortcomings of that legacy.(9) a female countercurrent in the survey(10) Fortunately, an ethical countercurrent exists which is actively promoting the concept of personhood in dementia.(11) The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.(12) The choroid rete mirabile is a large organ behind the retina of the eye, composed of several thousand capillaries arranged countercurrent to each other.(13) It was a powerful countercurrent against the tide of democracy.(14) Not a jellyfish appeared, of course, but the day was chilly and breezy, and the shoreline countercurrent was running at double its usual force.(15) the leys pass countercurrent to the soap(16) The countercurrent could be interrupted when the cold surface water in the Arctic becomes less salty and fails to sink, and the water could become less salty when the warming climate increases the Arctic rainfall.
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(1) counter-current
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Noun
1. crosscurrent


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