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counterpart
/ˈkaʊntɚˌpɑɹt/
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What does counterpart mean?
noun
- Either of two parts that fit together or otherwise complement one another.
- A duplicate of a legal document.
- One who or that which resembles another.
More meanings (3)
noun
- One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
- Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
verb
- To counterbalance.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkaʊntɚˌpɑɹt/
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With Hegel the necessity of finding some working concrete counterpart of the inaccessible Absolute took an institutional, rather than symbolic, form.
When, however, either of these trees stood alone, or unaccompanied by its counterpart, by it both of the creative principles were understood.
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On the night of the 19th I went on deck to see an iceberg, which was a perfect counterpart of Newstead Abbey.
To find a counterpart in imaginative literature to the complete criminal of the Holmes type we must turn to the pages of Shakespeare.
It differs in respect of its devotional life from its European counterpart, but it differs in degree and method rather than in substance.