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countercyclical

a. 1 (context economics English) Moving in the opposite direction as the overall state of an economy 2 (context public policy English) Dampening the cyclical fluctuations of an economy.

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A coiled heavy-ion accelerator boosted two baskets of uranium nuclei to fantastic levels of energy before smashing the countercyclical beams head-on, very briefly re-creating the ten-trillion-degree environment that had existed roughly one microsecond after the Big Bang.