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clockwise
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock [ant: counterclockwise ] adv. in the direction that the hands of a clock move; "please move clockwise in a circle" [ant: counterclockwise ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clockwise \clockwise\ adj. 1. -- of rotatory motion. dextral
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Circular motion can occur in two possible directions. A clockwise (typically abbreviated as CW ) motion is one that proceeds in the same direction as a clock 's hands: from the top to the right, then down and then to the left, and back up to the top. The ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also clock-wise , "in the direction of the hands of a clock," 1879, from clock (n.1) + wise (n.).
Usage examples of clockwise.
The balance was spinning like a whirling dervish, widdershins instead of clockwise, so fast it just became a blur.
She would turn Bruja to her left, there to travel clockwise around the central suns.
Estevan walked clockwise, Clio counterclockwise around the perimeter, where the floodlights did a fairly good job of illumination except for the dark patches between the widely spaced lights.
The rosette of dots jumped in its egg-shaped orbit around the moon, moving clockwise.
As long as the tanks stayed jammed together, Balthasar could not rotate clockwise any farther, not the last few crucial degrees toward the shooter across the field.
Goldfarb pondered the whirlwind of high-energy particles, trillions of electron volts sweeping clockwise underneath the bucolic landscape.
Then the sorcerer began to circle them, clockwise, while simultaneously drawing a line in the red dirt with the tip of his staff.
At his word the lightning ball, crackling fiercely, began to follow the circle in a clockwise direction.
Again walking clockwise, he scattered a fine green sand over the line he had drawn and intoned an interminable number of doggerel verses in a singsong voice.
Ponderously he walked clockwise to the dancers, so that they passed in review for him.
Manatees still hapless victims of area boaters January 8, 1986 She floated clockwise in the current.
They had reached the ring road and were travelling round it in a clockwise direction.
A not-a-crab spotted them and burrowed quickly into the sand with a clockwise screwing motion.
Stupas were worshipped by the rite of circumambulation, which always had to be in a clockwise direction, and offerings were made to it.
The pilgrim, still following a clockwise progression, ascended from one terrace to the next, on each of which were chapels containing images and wall-paintings, the whole culminating in a shrine at the top.