counterpart

About 5.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Either of two parts that fit together or otherwise complement one another.

   Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly.

2. noun A duplicate of a legal document.
3. noun One who or that which resembles another. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. noun One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.

   Her French counterpart attended the meeting via video call.

5. noun Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
6. verb To counterbalance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

opposite number similitude vis-a-vis twin partner matching equivalency parallel equivalence equivalent

Often followed by

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Word family

counterparts