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Clockwise   Listen
adjective
clockwise  adj.  
1.
of rotatory motion. dextral





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Clockwise" Quotes from Famous Books



... but a crude ASCII representation of the inscription. The center 'W' is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit
... (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island and isolated areas of West Antarctica; other ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... small, uncommercial quantities Land use: no arable land and no plant growth; ice 98%, barren rock 2% Environment: mostly uninhabitable; katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; a circumpolar ocean current flows clockwise along the coast as do cyclonic storms that form over the ocean; during summer more solar radiation reaches the surface at the South Pole than is received at the Equator in an equivalent period; in October 1991 it was reported that the ozone shield, which protects the Earth's surface ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... to the middle, then back so far! Gents step up for a clockwise star! Now shift hands and twirl t'other way, We'll keep on dancin' till the ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton
... upper portion of a color-wheel, with center at O, and with equal sectors A and B, in front of which a rod P oscillates to right and left on the same axis as that of the wheel. Let the disc rotate clockwise, and let P be observed in its rightward oscillation. Since the disc moves faster than the rod, the front of the sector A will at some point come up to and pass behind the rod P, say at p^{A}. P now hides a part of A and both are moving in the same direction. ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various


Words linked to "Clockwise" :   dextral, counterclockwise, dextrorotary, right-handed, dextrorotatory


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