Countercurrent Synonyms

kountər-kûrənt, -kŭr-
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rip
  2. riptide
  3. tide-rip
  4. crosscurrent
Actions counter to the main group activity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crosscurrent

Countercurrent Sentence Examples

  • Each main current of migration produces a compensating countercurrent.

  • The belt of equatorial minimum salinity corresponds with the excessively rainy belt of calms and of the equatorial countercurrent, the salinity diminishing towards the east.

  • On reaching the western Pacific part of this current passes southwards, east of New Zealand, and again east of Australia, as the East Australian Current, part northwards to join the Equatorial CounterCurrent, and during the north-east monsoon part makes its way through the China Sea towards the Indian Ocean.