counterarm
Collocations
4ADJ.
effective, perfected
VERB + COUNTERARM
arm
COUNTERARM + NOUN
parity
PREP.
in, on
Definitions
verb
To arm oneself in order to match the level of weaponry held by an opponent.
After all, according to the letter of the 1979 NATO decision, the NATO council was supposed to examine first the results of the Soviet-U.S. talks and then to take a decision on whether to counterarm, as they call it in the West, or not to counterarm.
The lesson of the last four years is therefore that the zero option would not now be within our grasp if we had not taken the decision to counterarm and restore parity.
noun
A weapon that is acquired in order to counter one held by an opponent.
The submarine is the dominating weapon today. Undersea boats spell a nameless, historical terror because no effective counterarm has been perfected.
Of course, we want them in a forum, not a forum of threat and counterthreat, arm and counterarm, but in the forum of discussion, and I suggest we put it there.
A weighted arm, or an arm that holds a weight, which acts as a counterbalance.
Balancing this at the other end of the teeterboard was a counterarm.
Grotesque arms and counterarms of the balance mechanism below the tunnel wrote their mathematical hieroglyphs on the big instrument panel.
A galactic arm on the far side of a galaxy that is colliding with another galaxy.
On the far side of the larger galaxy a counterarm sometimes sprouts out.
The deformations are triggered after the passage to perigalacticon: the two spiral arms generated are not symmetric and are distinguished by a bridge linking the two galaxies and a counterarm at the opposite side.
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6After all, according to the letter of the 1979 NATO decision, the NATO council was supposed to examine first the results of the Soviet-U.S. talks and then to take a decision on whether to counterarm,
WiktionaryThe lesson of the last four years is therefore that the zero option would not now be within our grasp if we had not taken the decision to counterarm and restore parity.
WiktionaryThe process of detente suffered repeated setbacks, however, including the NATO decision to counterarm in 1977, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and the West's boycott of the © Olympic Games
WiktionaryThe submarine is the dominating weapon today. Undersea boats spell a nameless, historical terror because no effective counterarm has been perfected.
WiktionaryOf course, we want them in a forum, not a forum of threat and counterthreat, arm and counterarm, but in the forum of discussion, and I suggest we put it there.
WiktionaryIf those years are devoted to an accelerated arms race, we might very well miss the big chance while still building ever- increasing piles of arms and counterarms.
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