Translation for 'to counter sth' from English to French

to counter sth.

contrer qc. [offensive, armée]mil.

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counter

compteur {m}

comptoir {m}comm.meub.

guichet {m} [de banque]fin.

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rev counter

compte-tours {m}autotech.

ticket counter

guichet {m}

counter-attack

contre-attaque {f}mil.

counter-factual

contrefactuel {adj}philos.

checkout (counter)

caisse {f} [de supermarché]comm.fin.

counter-revolutionary

contre-révolutionnaire {m}pol.

Geiger counter

compteur {m} Geigerméd.phys.

counter-bid

contre-offre {f}comm.

counter-terrorism

lutte {f} antiterroristedr.

counter proposal

contre-proposition {f}pol.

kitchen counter

comptoir {m} de cuisinemeub.

counter-claim

demande {f} reconventionnelledr.

counter question

question {f} contraire

counter [football]

contre-attaque {f}sport

counter-charge

contre-attaque {f}mil.

perfume counter

comptoir {m} parfumeriecomm.cosm.

counter bearing

culée {f}constr.

• These measures work to counter the natural processes that threaten the historic site.
• They can be used to launch devices (in some cases automatically) to counter direct threats against the aircraft.
• The Persians followed up their victory by sending a fleet to re-establish their control over Cyprus, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under Cimon, who returned from ostracism in 451 BC.
• An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (missile defense).
• The project began in July 1984 as the flagship project of the 400-person Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), a research consortium started by two dozen large United States based corporations "to counter a then ominous Japanese effort in AI, the so-called "fifth-generation" project."

• Thermal noise and cosmic rays may alter the pixels in the CCD array. To counter such effects, astronomers take several exposures with the CCD shutter closed and opened.
• Mormon apologetics organizations, such as FAIR and the Maxwell Institute, seek to counter criticisms of the church and its leaders.
• If the defender can hold the shoulders of the breach they will have the opportunity to counter-attack into the flank of the attacker, potentially cutting off the van as happened to Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes.
• The idea that a curve may come arbitrarily close to a line without actually becoming the same may seem to counter everyday experience.
• Anxious about Balkan instability and Russian aggression, and to counter French interests in Europe, Austria–Hungary forged a defensive alliance with Germany in October 1879 and in May 1882.

• To counter this effect, a variety of strategies have been employed.
• Bostrom's mathematical development shows that choosing either too broad or too narrow a reference class leads to counter-intuitive results, but he is not able to prescribe an ideal choice.
• Today, missiles (generally mounted on similar turrets) have largely supplanted anti-aircraft guns, but they may return as an cheap way to counter unmanned aerial systems (drones).
• A reply from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York (1896) was issued to counter Pope Leo's arguments: "Saepius officio: Answer of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Bull Apostolicae Curae of H.
• Many international funding agencies like USAID, DFID, SIDA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have pledged money for developing strategies to counter antimicrobial resistance.

• Some modern historians see in those administrative reforms an attempt by Constantine at reintegrating the senatorial order into the imperial administrative elite to counter the possibility of alienating pagan senators from a Christianized imperial rule; however, such an interpretation remains conjectural, given the fact that we do not have the precise numbers about pre-Constantine conversions to Christianity in the old senatorial milieu.
• Burn-in is when images are physically "burned" into the screen of the CRT; this occurs due to degradation of the phosphors due to prolonged electron bombardment of the phosphors, and happens when a fixed image or logo is left for too long on the screen, causing it to appear as a "ghost" image or, in severe cases, also when the CRT is off. To counter this, screensavers were used in computers to minimize burn-in.