WordNet
n. rotation to the right [syn: dextrorotation] [ant: levorotation]
Usage examples of "clockwise rotation".
She'd straightened 'em out all right, for about a millisecond before the counter-clockwise rotation began to swing the tank's bow out of alignment again in the opposite direction.
He brought out a long, slender, tapered, German-made screwdriver with autonomic clockwise or anti-clockwise rotation action (depending on which way you pressed the plastic handle) and began his work.
That shadow slowly turned counterclockwise, with the clockwise rotation of the globe.
The slick bronze surface of the gateway was showing a noticeable clockwise rotation.
For a long time, islanders resisted mechanical clocks, deterred by the clockwise rotation, and by what appeared to them the suspiciously simple movements of hands measuring off the passage of time in equal units, without regard for the position of the sun.