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countercurve

countercurve noun: a curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.

Noun

countercurve (plural countercurves)

  1. A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
    • The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region.2006 May, Yoga Journal
    • A third option of creating a postoperative scoliosis, or rather a postoperative decompensation of a curve, has been observed in patients who had a correction of an idiopathic thoracic scoliosis in their adolescence and the nontreated lumbar compensatory counter-curve or the countercurve in a double...2005, Marek Szpalski, Robert Gunzburg, editors, The Failed Spine, Lippincott Williams & Willkins, page 47

Forms of countercurve

pluralcountercurves

Origin of countercurve

From counter- + curve.

Questions about countercurve

What does countercurve mean?
Countercurve means a curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
What part of speech is countercurve?
Countercurve is a noun.
What is the plural of countercurve?
The plural of countercurve is countercurves.

Words near countercurve in the dictionary

  1. countercurrently
  2. countercurrents
  3. countercurrentwise
  4. countercurse
  5. countercurses
  6. countercurve
  7. countercurves
  8. countercyclic
  9. countercyclical
  10. countercyclicality
  11. countercyclically

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