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

Repetition and counterchange, of course, have their place in Japanese ornament, as in the diaper patterns for which these people have so singular an invention, but here, too, uniqueness and position are the principal inspiration. 

From Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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

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

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

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