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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Counterpart \Coun"ter*part`\ (koun"t?r-p?rt`), n.
1. A part corresponding to another part anything which
answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate;
a facsimile.
In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the
laws of England, so that they seem to be as it
were copies or counterparts one of another. --Sir
M. Hale.
2. (Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a
duplicate.
3. A person who closely resembles another.
4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit
perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence a thing
which is adapted to another thing or which supplements
it that which serves to complete or complement anything
hence a person or thing having qualities lacking in
another; an opposite.
O counterpart Of our soft sex, well are you made our
lords. --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
counterpart
n 1: a person or thing having the same function or
characteristics as another [syn: {opposite number}, {vis-a-vis}]
2: a duplicate copy [syn: {similitude}, {twin}]
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