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Definition of Countertrades
1. countertrade [n] - See also: countertrade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countertrades
Literary usage of Countertrades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Aerography for the United States Navy, 1918 by Alexander McAdie (1918)
"We shall use the term "countertrades" for the winds above the trades.
The countertrades, then, are above the trades and extend approximately from 4 to ..."
2. ... Physical Geography by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1891)
"countertrades. Origin. Proofs. Direction. Polar winds. 6. The Calm Belts.
Equatorial. Calms of Cancer. Of Capricorn. Annual movement of calms and winds. 7. ..."
3. The Story of Our Planet by Thomas George Bonney (1893)
"Its dust must have been hurled up into the region of the countertrades, carried
by them away to the northeast beyond Barbadoes, till it settled down into ..."
4. California of the South: Its Physical Geography, Climate, Resources, Routes by Walter Lindley, Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1888)
"... is yet tempered winter and summer by the constant inflow of the countertrades,
an air-current rendered equable by the mild ocean- waters over which it ..."
5. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"Mesenteric traction was chiefly produced by the downward pressure oi ' the stomach
on the intestines, which last exercised a countertrades I against the ..."
6. The Conquest of the Air: Or, The Advent of Aërial Navigation by Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1909)
"... above the permanent northeast and southeast trades the countertrades blow,
respectively, from the southwest and northwest. As some doubt had been cast ..."
7. The Conquest of the Air: Or, The Advent of Aerial Navigation by Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1909)
"In the tropics, hear the coast and at sea, above the permanent northeast and
southeast trades the countertrades blow, respectively, from the southwest and ..."
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