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/kˈaʊntərpˌɑrt/ /kˈaʊnərpˌɑrt/ Listen

noun

Counterpart n.

A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile. "In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another."

(Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.

A person who closely resembles another.

A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite. "O counterpart Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords."

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Etymology of 'Counterpart'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Counterpart" Quotes from Famous Books

... new stages have been intercalated in the course of the life-history, though it is difficult to see how this has occurred. It is much more likely, if we may judge from available evidence, that every stage has had its counterpart in the ancestral form from which it has been derived by descent with modification. Just as the adult phase of the living form differs, owing to evolutionary modification, from the adult phase of the ancestor from which it has proceeded, so each larval phase will differ for the same reason from ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... a deer. Her hair was dark brown, and she wore it coiled upon the nape of her neck; a bright colour burned in her cheeks, and her eyes, of a very clear grey, met the eyes of those to whom she talked with a most engaging frankness. And in character she was the counterpart of her looks. She was honest; she had a certain simplicity, the straightforward simplicity of strength which comprises much gentleness and excludes violence. Of her courage there is a story still told in Ramelton, which Feversham ...

— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason

... rapid revolution of the satellite, which has no counterpart, so far as we know, in our Solar system is that, instead of rising in the east and setting in the west as all the other heavenly bodies appear to do, Phobos appears to rise in the west, cross the sky, and ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

... because common sense shows the extreme improbability that two people—born of different stocks, and brought up in different households—the man, sometimes, in no household at all—should each be the exact counterpart of the other; should come together provided respectively, with the very qualities, likes and dislikes, that ...

— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

... bride escaping out of one corner of the canvas do not enter at all into the linear scheme and in their anxiety to flee Hades they are about to leave art and the spectator. The picture is a strange counterpart of the Apollo and Daphne of Giorgione at Venice, and since it is known of Corot that he cared infinitely more for nature than art, it is fair to suppose that he had never seen this picture either in the original ...

— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

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