counterchange

Meaning of counterchange

verb
  1. chequer with contrasting colours.
    a sudden splendour counterchanged the level lake with diamond-plots of dark and bright
noun
  1. change that is equivalent in degree but opposite in effect to a previous change.
    to all change there must be counterchange
  2. patterning in which a dark motif on a light ground alternates with the same motif light on a dark ground.

late Middle English (as a heraldic term): from French contrechanger, from contre (expressing substitution) + changer ‘to change’.

Information about counterchange

  • The plural form of counterchange is: counterchanges.
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Hyphenation of counterchange

coun-ter-change

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 13 chars.
  • counterchange is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

counterchange synonyms

Meaning transpose:

transpose, interchange

Words that rhyme with counterchange

Ange, bange, vendange, leefange, gange, change, exchange, gearchange, hange, interchange, interexchange, orphange, preexchange, preinterchange, rechange, reexchange, reinterchange, shortchange, superexchange, transchange, unchange, Bashilange, Falange, Lange, Malange, Phalange, Solange, alange, boomslange, counterflange, flange, interflange, malange, melange, mlange, phalange, schlange, blancmange, mange, synange, loange, Grange, INRange, Lagrange, Orange, Range, SpectrumOrange, arrange, citrange, coarrange

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