Definition of Counterturn. Meaning of Counterturn. Synonyms of Counterturn

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Definition of Counterturn

Counterturn
Counterturn Coun"ter*turn` (-t?rn`), n. The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. --Dryden.

Meaning of Counterturn from wikipedia

- Comăneci (Romania) Daggett (pommel horse) – scissor backward with 1⁄2 counterturn, after Tim Daggett (US) Dalton (parallel bars) – roll backward with 1⁄2...
- das Unheimliche, the uncanny. Heidegger emphasises what he calls the "counterturning" character of the term. Deinon, he says, means the fearful, the powerful...
- Because Peter Johnson does not guide himself either by the turns and counterturns of verse or the horizontal urge of prose, he must continually reinvent...
- discursive series of meditations varying the central theme of "turn and counterturn" that as one remain, however, "Without Title". One must not forget that...