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Definition of Counteracting
1. counteract [v] - See also: counteract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counteracting
Literary usage of Counteracting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"If the main battery and the counteracting battery be connected with a coil and
line wire, and if the strength of the counteracting battery be such as to ..."
2. Elements of Political Economy by Joseph Shield Nicholson (1903)
"counteracting Causes. — So long as the conditions laid down remain the same, ...
And it is in the answer to this question that the counteracting causes are ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"It is known to have been erected a short while before the Revolution, by a few
earnest Protestant Christians, as a means of counteracting a Catholic school ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"On the Influence of Belladonna in counteracting {he Poisonous Effects of Opium.—Dr.
Graves had first suggested that in continued fever, with protracted ..."
5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1855)
"(231) counteracting Currents: Gas Battery.—We shall now resume the consideration
of those forms of voltaic combination which are the most important in ..."
6. Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Sutherland Mrs Orr (1908)
"... Shelley—Prolonged Influence of Shelley—Details of Home Education—Its
Effects—Youthful Restlessness—counteracting Love of Home—Early Friendships: Alfred ..."
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