counterchange

American  

[koun-ter-cheynj] / ˌkaʊn tərˈtʃeɪndʒ /

verb (used with object)

counterchanged, counterchanging

1. to cause to change places, qualities, etc.; interchange.

2. to diversify; checker.

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counterchange British  

/ ˌkaʊntəˈtʃeɪndʒ /

verb

1. to change parts, qualities, etc

2. poetic to chequer, as with contrasting colours

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Etymology

Origin of counterchange

First recorded in 1885–90; counter- + change

Example Sentences

Net result: a cat-and-mouse game of code change and counterchange that could prevent the adoption of standards and stunt this medium for years to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

They take us into the open fields, and show us the soft counterchange of shadows and sunlight, bright spaces and pursuing swarths of shade.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

The 13th century parti-coloured and striped dresses foreshadowed the heraldic fashion, which must be studied for its proportion and treatment of decorative colour-values in counterchange to get the true value of its noble effects.

From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Hughes, Talbot

Dissolution is the counterchange which sooner or later every evolved aggregate undergoes.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

The whole conversation becomes a dance of change and counterchange of place.

From The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson