clockwise

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A sheer cliff cannot be scaled -- until you spin the world 90 degrees clockwise, that is, creating a nice flat plain to stroll across.

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  1. adverb In the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock.

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  • North is counter-clockwise, south is clockwise, east is spinward, and west is anti-spinward. —  FSF, July 2006
  • Long tried a touch clockwise, then a touch counter. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • Round the deck they moved, Hales working anti-clockwise, the girl clockwise. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
  • Reacher drove around the circle clockwise, the British way. —  The Hard Way by Lee Child
  • That was better than having it be exactly on the other side—it would be only twenty-nine kilometers for him to walk around clockwise, a little less than the full thirty-five kilometers around the rim. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
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