Countermeasure

Quick meaning: Countermeasure is a noun meaning Any action taken to counteract or correct another.

Meaning

Any action taken to counteract or correct another.

More Meanings

1. (military, chiefly in the plural) Any of the devices and techniques used to impair the operational effectiveness of an enemy.

Example Sentences

Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.

We fear that this will be the beginning of a negative development of measures and countermeasures, at the end of which there will be no winner

Word Forms

• countermeasures

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include counteraction, counter-attack, counterattack, counter, response, confrontation.

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