countercurrent

How To Use countercurrent In A Sentence

• The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
• Opened in 2007, the family-run Forte S ā o Jo ā o da Barra is part of a small but growing band of hotels running countercurrent to the wave of mass tourism that has swept over much of the Algarve region during the past 40 years. Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
• A rectal probe housing a linear array of five copper-constantan thermocouples was designed to measure colonic temperatures simultaneously at positions anterior to, within, and posterior to the region of the colon flanked by the countercurrent heat exchanger. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• Throughout the history of naïve, misleading realism, there has been a countercurrent of pseudorealism, which has satirized the shortcomings of this mode we have been conditioned to unquestioningly accept.
• In the months, or sometimes even years, between flows, a silent countercurrent moves in the opposite direction.
• While we've seen a flood of antiwar activity over the past eight months, we've also witnessed a powerful countercurrent of political repression.
• Dark, dense lines sweep down from the top in many drawings, echoed and at points countered by paler liquid lines which run in opposing directions, suggesting currents and countercurrents.
• The China Pioneer Area of Eastern Pacific Ocean is to the north of the equatorial high nutrients area, across the the boundary of the North Equatorial Current and North Equatorial Countercurrent.
• These films are a steady countercurrent to the seemingly endless paeans to World War II, a recognition that there have been quite a few wars and generations since the ‘greatest.’
• When I went through the Brandenburg Gate, I had to push through a countercurrent of girls parading their lovely selves through a temporary narrow passage of plywood.