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counter (adjective)
This entry is located in the following unit: put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative (page 3)
counter (adverb)
This entry is located in the following unit: put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative (page 3)
counter (s) (noun), counters (pl)

When the President of the United States has opinions which are sometimes counter to those of Congress, he is known to encounter opposition.

counter (verb), counters; countered; countering
This entry is located in the following unit: put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative (page 3)
counter, counter, counter
counter (KOUN tuhr) (noun)
A piece of furniture with a flat surface that workers and customers stand on opposite sides of when doing business in a store, restaurant, etc.: Marlow walked up to the counter and ordered his food and he also put his money down on the counter.
counter (KOUN tuhr) (noun)
A person or device that tabulates or records something: The counter documents how many people visit the web site.
counter (KOUN tuhr) (noun)
Something that is made or done as a defense against or in response to something else: The government policy is intended as a counter to efforts to decrease spending on education.

The assigned counter, of how many customers came into the store last month, laid out his report on the counter when he was discussing the counter offensive with his supervisor.

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A unit related to: “counter
(Latin: against, opposed to, opposite, conflicting, different, clashing, unaccommodating)
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counterclockwise, counter-clockwise
This entry is located in the following unit: contra-, contro-, counter, contre- (page 6)
counterimmunoelectrophoresis, CIE, counter electrophoresis, countercurrent electrophoresis, counter migration electrophoresis
A laboratory technique in which an electric current is used to accelerate the migration of an antibody and an antigen through a buffered diffusion medium.

Antigens in a gel medium in which the pH is controlled are strongly negatively charged and will migrate rapidly across the electric field toward the anode.

The antibody in such a medium is less negatively charged and will migrate in an opposite or "counter" direction toward the cathode.

If the antigen and antibody are specific for each other, they combine and form a distinct line of precipitation.

This technique is becoming increasingly useful for detecting antigens or antibodies specific for given infectious diseases, diagnosing clinical bacterial infections, and choosing medications to treat the infections.

This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 3)
electronic counter, electronic tachometer
1. An instrument that uses electronic elements to count the number of pulses (short durations of electrical current flows) applied to it.
2. An electronic circuit using electron tubes or equivalent devices for counting electric pulses or transient sharp changes in voltage, currents, or some other normally constant quantities in an electronic system.
3. An instrument capable of counting up to several million electrical pulses per second.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 60) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 8)
electronic counter-countermeasures, electronic counter countermeasures, ECCM
1. A division of electronic warfare in which actions are taken to ensure friendly, effective use of electromagnetic radiations or wavelengths in spite of an enemy's use of electronic countermeasures.
2. Efforts made to ensure effective use of electromagnetic radiation in spite of the use of countermeasures by an enemy.
3. Retaliatory tactics used to reduce the effectiveness of electronic countermeasures.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 61) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 8)
gamma counter
A device for detecting gamma radiation, primarily through the detection of fast electrons produced by the gamma rays; it either yields information about integrated intensity within a time interval or detects each photon separately.
This entry is located in the following unit: gamma; Γ, γ + (page 1)
ion counter, ionization counter
1. An ionization chamber in which there is no internal amplification by gas multiplication; used for counting ionizing particles.
2. An apparatus that counts the number of unit charges of electricity that are contained in a sampled volume of the atmosphere.

The general procedure is to pass a sample of the atmosphere through a charged cylindrical condenser.

The change in the potential across the condenser is a measure of the ionic charge contained in the sample volume and the change in potential depends upon such factors as the polarizing potential of the condenser, the mobility and charge of the ions, volume and length of the condenser, and sample flow rate.

This entry is located in the following unit: ion, ion- + (page 2)
konimeter, coniometer, jet dust counter
1. An instrument for measuring the amount of dust in the air.
2. A portable instrument for making a rough and rapid evaluation of airborne dust concentrations.

It consists of a hand-primed pump that draws a known volume of air through a jet on to a plate on which particles ar counted under magnification.

koniscope, coniscope, dust counter, Aitken dust counter
An scientific instrument which indicates the presence of dust particles in the atmosphere.

Named after John Aitken (1839-1919), a Scottish physicist and meteorologist, one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science who invented the first koniscope.