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Countercurrent

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
crosscurrentrip
plural
Countercurrents
possessive
Countercurrent's
pluralpossessive
Countercurrents'