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counter part

[koun-ter-pahrt]

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noun

a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.

a copy; duplicate.

Law. a duplicate or copy of an indenture.

one of two parts that fit, complete, or complement one another.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English; see counter-, part

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counterpart

1451, originally countre part "duplicate of a legal document," from O.Fr. contrepartie, from contre "facing, opposite" + partie "copy of a person or thing," originally fem. pp. of partir "to divide" (see party).

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"The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object."

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