counterarm

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A weapon that is acquired in order to counter one held by an opponent.
    — The submarine is the dominating weapon today. Undersea boats spell a nameless, historical terror because no effective counterarm has been perfected.
  2. A weighted arm, or an arm that holds a weight, which acts as a counterbalance.
    — Balancing this at the other end of the teeterboard was a counterarm.
  3. A galactic arm on the far side of a galaxy that is colliding with another galaxy.
    — On the far side of the larger galaxy a counterarm sometimes sprouts out.
动词 v.
  1. To arm oneself in order to match the level of weaponry held by an opponent.
    — After all, according to the letter of the 1979 NATO decision, the NATO council was supposed to examine first the results of the Soviet-U.S. talks and then to take a decision on whether to counterarm, as they call it in the West, or not to counterarm.

词形变化

counterarms present,singular,third-person counterarming participle,present counterarmed participle,past counterarmed past counterarms plural

词源

词源 1
From counter- + arm.
词源 2
From counter- + arm.
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