COUNTERMEASURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does countermeasure mean? 

• COUNTERMEASURE (noun)
  The noun COUNTERMEASURE has 1 sense:

1. an action taken to offset another action

  Familiarity information: COUNTERMEASURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTERMEASURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An action taken to offset another action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("countermeasure" is a kind of...):

measure; step (any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "countermeasure"):

countermine ((military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy)

 Context examples 

Just as mammals have evolved defenses against viruses, viruses have evolved countermeasures to defeat cellular defenses.

(HIV-1 Infection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Taken together, these findings help identify transmission pathways that potentially could be blocked with a countermeasure.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

MiRNAs are viable biomarkers of sleep deprivation, psychological stress, and cognitive vulnerability in humans and can be used to identify individuals ahead of time who are in need of countermeasures or interventions such as caffeine or naps to mitigate or prevent impairments associated with insufficient sleep.

(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The salivary glands of some tick species could become important research tools for studying how viruses are transmitted from ticks to mammals, and for developing preventive medical countermeasures.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)