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crosscurrent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun crosscurrent has 2 senses
- crosscurrent(n = noun.event) countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip - a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current; Array is a kind of turbulence, turbulency
- crosscurrent(n = noun.act) countercurrent - actions counter to the main group activity; "political crosscurrents disrupted the conference" is a kind of strife
CIDE DICTIONARY
crosscurrent, n.
- a stretch of turbulent water in the sea. [WordNet 1.5]
- a tendency or sentiment within a group which conflicts with that of the majority; -- often used in the plural. [PJC]
THESAURUS
crosscurrent
affluence, afflux, affluxion, air current, bucking, challenge, concourse, confluence, conflux, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contravention, contraversion, counteraction, counterbalance, counterblast, countercurrent, counterforce, counterinfluence, counterpoise, counterpressure, counterweight, counterworking, course, crossing, current, current of air, defluxion, denial, downdraft, downflow, downpour, draft, drift, driftage, fall wind, flow, flow of air, flowing, fluency, flux, following wind, foul wind, gush, head wind, impugnation, impugnment, indraft, inflow, inhalation, inrush, inspiration, jetstream, katabatic wind, mill run, millrace, monsoon, movement of air, negation, onrush, onward course, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, outflow, race, rebutment, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, resistance, run, rush, set, spate, standing against, stream, stream of air, surge, tail wind, tide, traversal, trend, undercurrent, undertow, updraft, water flow, wind
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