counterpart (kounterpart)

[= F. contre partie = Sp. Pg. contraparte = It. contraparte; as counter- + part.] 1. A A correspondent part; a part that answers to another, as the several parts or copies of an indenture corresponding to the original; a copy; a duplicate.2. The complement, as a certificate of hiring given by a tenant to his landlord on receiving from him a certificate of letting, or a bought note given to the seller on receiving the sold note.-3. A person or thing exactly resembling another or corresponding to another in appear ance, character, character, po position, influence, and the like; a representative; a match; a fellow. Hero dot us is the counterpart of some ideal Pandora, by the universality of his accomplishments. De Quincey, Hero dot us. And in... its recognized and evident universality Christ's human nature is without a counterpart . Progre ive Orthodoxy, p. 20. 4. One of two parts which fit each other, as a cipher and its key, or a seal and its impre ion; hence, a thing that supplements another thing or completes it, or a person having qualities wanting in another, and such as compensate for the other's deficiencies. Oh counterpart Of our soft sex; well are you made our lords; So bold, so great, so god-like are you formed, How can you love so silly things as women? Dryden . Opinion is but the counterpart of condition - merely expre es the degree of civilization to which we have attained. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 196. 5. In music, the part to be arranged or used in connection with another: as, the ba is the counterpart to the treble. counter-pa ant (koun-tér-pas'ant), a. [F. contre-pa ant; as counter2 + pa ant.] In her., pa ant in contrary directions: said of beasts used as bearings. counter pedal (koun'ter-ped-al), a. Opposite or correlative to pedal. Counter pedal surface, in math., the locus of the intersections of the normal to a given surface with the planes through a fixed point parallel to the tangent planes.