countercurrent , also: counter-current

"We may be too near the countercurrent emerging from this thing.

Medium and product flow in cross countercurrent to each other.

Either alone was too strong; together they set up a sort of olfactory countercurrent.

At the doldrums it flows back east producing the equatorial countercurrent.

Oil and water flow is by a countercurrent, gravity driven drainage into the lower well bore.

Between them and flowing in the opposite direction is the Equatorial Countercurrent.

"The older liberal worldview that it's all a question of willpower is still very present in America, but genetics has become a strong countercurrent."

But she knew she could not-and a deeper countercurrent in her didn't want to go.

Change was a vital aspect of life and of the universe, yet an emotional countercurrent wished it were not so.

The material was fed to these reactors countercurrent to a flow of anhydrous HF.

"An analysis of the countercurrent moving bed reactor" (with S. Viswanathan).

A tiny minority of the former Communist Project decided not to leave the party and gathered in a new faction named Countercurrent.

"Evidence of a South Equatorial Countercurrent in the Pacific Ocean."

With the countercurrent you¡ ll shorten it.

Countercurrent may refer to:

Homer Smith, a considerable contemporary authority on renal physiology, opposed the model countercurrent concentration for 8 years, until conceding ground in 1959.

Koeppen was an endemically premature one-man countercurrent.

Pulo Anna lies in the flow of the Equatorial Countercurrent throughout the year.

If optimism and a certain trust in what used to be called "the American way of life" remained strong, a countercurrent of ambivalence grew at the same time.

The flow of soil may be either cocurrent with or countercurrent to the direction of the purge gas flow.

South of the North Equatorial Current, running in the opposite direction, is the Equatorial Countercurrent.

"All the other politicians are talking about a Europe without frontiers, but Le Pen took a countercurrent," the Deputy Mayor added.

There is also no blood vessel countercurrent exchange system (the rete mirabile) in the trunk to limit the loss of metabolic heat to the water.

"An Interannual Study of the Atlantic North Equatorial Countercurrent."

"Influence of Equatorial Dynamics on the Pacific North Equatorial Countercurrent."