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Counterpoint

An opposite point

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Compose 76% connected

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

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Differ 76% connected

To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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Polyphony 76% connected

Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.

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Write 76% connected

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the charact…

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Conflict 76% connected

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

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Counterbalance 76% connected

To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

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Foil 76% connected

To tread under foot; to trample.

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Oppose 76% connected

To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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Contrast 92% connected

To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.

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Ace noun · 78% connection

the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they h…

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Alignment noun · 78% connection

the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other

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Balance noun · 78% connection

harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is…

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Emphasis noun · 78% connection

special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.

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Hierarchy noun · 78% connection

a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"

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Law of proximity noun · 78% connection

a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space o…

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One noun · 78% connection

the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they h…

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Proportion noun · 78% connection

harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is…

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Proportionality noun · 78% connection

harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is…

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Proximity noun · 78% connection

a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space o…

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Repeating noun · 78% connection

the act of doing or performing again

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About adverb · 78% connection

To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.

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Anthelion noun · 78% connection

A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud…

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Anticlastic adjective · 78% connection

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surf…

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Antisolar adjective · 78% connection

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180? distant from the sun.

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Aphelion noun · 78% connection

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

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Cone noun · 78% connection

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

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Contrary adjective · 78% connection

Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.

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Couche verb · 78% connection

Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side,…

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Counterterm noun · 78% connection

A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterte…

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Divide verb · 78% connection

To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in o…

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East noun · 78% connection

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…

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Focus noun · 78% connection

A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point o…

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Gyron noun · 78% connection

A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When…

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Heterodromous adjective · 78% connection

Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides…

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Hyperbola noun · 78% connection

A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It…

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Level noun · 78% connection

A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel t…

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Lever noun · 78% connection

A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forc…

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Libration point noun · 78% connection

any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where…

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