counteraction

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ action.

Noun

counteraction (plural counteractions)

1. An act of retaliation; a counterattack.
2. Any action in opposition to a previous action.
   • 2015 September 15, “Assessing the Metabolic Diversity of Streptococcus from a Protein Domain Point of View”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].

Related terms

• neutralization

Translations

counterattack

• Azerbaijani: əks-hərəkət, əks-hücum
• Bulgarian: контраатака (bg) f (kontraataka)
• Finnish: vastaisku (fi), vastahyökkäys
• Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva), კონტრიერიში (ḳonṭrieriši)
• Italian: contrattacco (it)
• Japanese: 反撃 (ja) (hangeki)

opposing action

• Azerbaijani: əks-hərəkət
• Bulgarian: противодействие (bg) n (protivodejstvie)
• Chinese: 抵消 (zh) (dǐxiāo)
• Finnish: vastatoimi
• Georgian: უკუქმედება (uḳukmedeba), საპირისპირო ქმედება (saṗirisṗiro kmedeba), საწინააღმდეგო ქმედება (sac̣inaaɣmdego kmedeba)
• Greek: αντενέργεια (el) f (antenérgeia)
• Irish: frithbheart m, frithghníomh m
• Japanese: 反作用 (ja) (hansayō), 中和 (ja) (chūwa), 相殺 (ja) (sōsai)

Anagrams

• countercation