counterformula

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ formula

Noun[edit]

counterformula (plural counterformulas or counterformulae)

  1. A formula that counters or goes against another formula.
    • 2000, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science, page 39:
      In this sense, Nietzsche's preface in rhymes offers counterformulas to the ones we actually learned as toddlers.
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