Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

countercurve

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: coun-ter-curve
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.

Example Sentences

"The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region."
"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 curve progressed to a scoliosis on the base of a progressive segmental degeneration."

Etymology

From counter- + curve.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: counter

Inflected Forms

countercurves (plural)

Questions

What does countercurve mean?: A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
Where does countercurve come from?: From counter- + curve.

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