Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Counterclockwise.
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- adjective Australia, New Zealand, UK, of movement in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom, in the opposite direction to the way the
hands of ananalogue clock move. - adverb Australia, New Zealand, UK In an anticlockwise fashion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move
- adjective in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock
Etymologies
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Examples
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But it would jiggle clockwise and anticlockwise a bit because of random thermal noise.
Boing Boing 2008
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But it would jiggle clockwise and anticlockwise a bit because of random thermal noise.
Boing Boing 2008
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But it would jiggle clockwise and anticlockwise a bit because of random thermal noise.
Boing Boing 2008
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Proof that money could turn the world on its head and make it spin anticlockwise.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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Proof that money could turn the world on its head and make it spin anticlockwise.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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He flipped the steel locking lever anticlockwise, opened the door and pulled out the steel tray.
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He shows me how, in 1983, he made the first bends in the trunks, leaning the trees anticlockwise by making a series of saw cuts nearly all the way through the growing trunk on the insides of the bends to allow for compression, binding the wounds with damp cloth under plastic until the cambium layer had healed, guiding and supporting the trees on stakes.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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He shows me how, in 1983, he made the first bends in the trunks, leaning the trees anticlockwise by making a series of saw cuts nearly all the way through the growing trunk on the insides of the bends to allow for compression, binding the wounds with damp cloth under plastic until the cambium layer had healed, guiding and supporting the trees on stakes.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Hurricanes and tropical storms spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere (as opposed to anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere) due to the Coriolis effect.
Southern Hemisphere Wikipedia 2009
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Sun-cast shadows turn anticlockwise through the day (sun dials have the hours in reverse).
Southern Hemisphere Wikipedia 2009
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