ˈcounter-earth
[counter- 8: a transl. of Gr. ἀντίχθων, f. ἀντί over against, opposite + χθών the earth.]
An opposite or secondary Earth, in the Pythagorean system: cf. antichthon.
| 1857 Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. I. 52 They asserted that there was an antichthon, or counter-earth. 1865 [see antichthon]. 1881 S. F. Alleyne tr. Zeller's Pre-Socratic Philos. I. 450 The earth always turns the same side to the counter-earth and the central fire. |