Phrase Hound found 25 phrases and 44 compound words that contain counters. The most common are listed below. Open counters in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 25
- hit countersplural of hit counter: A numerical display on a web page indicating the number of times the page has been accessed.
- card countersplural of card counter: A person who uses card counting in pontoon or blackjack in order to obtain an advantage.
- lunch countersplural of lunch counter: A luncheonette
- colony countersplural of colony counter: laboratory equipment used to count colonies of bacteria, or other microorganisms, growing on agar, usually in a Petri dish.
- axle countersplural of axle counter: A safety device fitted to railway track which counts the axles in a train as it passes over it. A check is carried out when the train passes the next axle counter to make sure the train is still complete.
- Geiger countersplural of Geiger counter: A device designed to detect radioactivity and measure its intensity.
- scintillation countersplural of scintillation counter: A detector of particles and ionizing radiation which uses a photomultiplier to generate flashes of light
- checkout countersplural of checkout counter: A place in a restaurant, bar, or shop etc, typically containing a cash register, where a customer can pay the bill.
- cross-countersplural of cross-counter: A counterattack begun immediately after an opponent throws a jab, exploiting the opening in the opponent's position.
- decade countersplural of decade counter: A counter that counts in decimal digits, rather than in binary.
- frame countersplural of frame counter: An indicator, in roll film cameras, that shows the number of frames that have moved through the camera (number of exposures taken).
- hard countersplural of hard counter: A character, item, or playstyle able to utterly defeat or nullify another.
- program countersplural of program counter: A register that stores the address of the current (or next) instruction to be carried out by the processor.
- rev countersplural of rev counter: an instrument which displays the speed an engine is operating at in revolutions per minute (RPM).
- trade countersplural of trade counter: A counter in a shop or business at which sales are made only to customers practising a particular trade, and not intended for sales to retail customers.
- bean-countersplural of bean-counter: A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general.
- bargaining countersplural of bargaining counter: Someone or something used as a leverage in negotiations.
- abbey countersplural of abbey counter: A medal presented to a pilgrim visiting a shrine.
- soda countersplural of soda counter: the counter of a soda fountain
- pollen countersplural of pollen counter: A device used to measure the amount of pollen in the air, to determine the pollen count.
- rivet countersplural of rivet counter: A person who has an obsession with the minutiae of their particular interest, especially in military and technology history. Anyone preoccupied with small distinguishing features between different items.
- time elapsed countersplural of time elapsed counter: A type of stopwatch or timer in a computer system that tracks the passage of time of a compiling, download, or other task.
- clicker countersplural of clicker counter: A hand-held button-operated device with a numerical display that adds a single digit to a tally with each click of the button.
- liquid scintillation countersplural of liquid scintillation counter: A piece of laboratory equipment used to analyse solutions of a beta particle emitter by measuring the scintillations from a scintillation cocktail.
- Geiger-Müller countersplural of Geiger-Müller counter: A Geiger counter.
Compound words 44
- countersinkA conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
- countersunkpast participle of countersink: A conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
- discountersplural of discounter: A vendor of discount goods.
- counterscarpThe outer slope of a defensive or fortified ditch
- countersinksplural of countersink: A conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
- anticountersplural of anticounter: A device that allows a scintillator to reject false triggers.
- beancountersplural of beancounter: A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general.
- countersangsimple past and past participle of countersing
- countersealingpresent participle and gerund of counterseal
- counterseasplural of countersea: A sea running in an opposite direction from the wind.