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What does countermovement mean?

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Noun
  1. A movement in opposition, or retaliation to another.
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A countermovement is then accomplished from east to west with a remarkable resemblance to the preceding movement from west to east.
At the short beep, jump up as high as possible without any countermovement while firmly keeping the load on the shoulders.
The influence of Heaven is diversified by the movement of the firmament and the countermovement of the seven planets.
This added arm swing causes the jumping motion of the blocker to be more like that of a countermovement jump.
By the end of the 20th century a countermovement began in which biologists stepped into the realm of the cartographers.
Several times it moves eastward and collides with a countermovement from the east westward.

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