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What is a counterpart?

What is a counterpart? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
  2. (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
  3. One which resembles another
  4. One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
  5. (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
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The presence in wheat kernels of a cathepsin B gene led the search for its barley counterpart.
In his autobiography he accredits the story to Neil Collins, Bennett's Daily Telegraph counterpart.
This study focuses on the loan terms which occur in both this basic form and its acrolectal counterpart.
Like her male counterpart, she always seems to have an affecting awareness of her sidekick status.
His counterpart was a short, compact man, obviously in the type of shape and trim that came from self-indulgent working out.
It's Thewlis who does the best job, realising Lupin as honestly and beautifully as his book-based counterpart.

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