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Clockwise   /klˈɑkwˌaɪz/   Listen
Clockwise

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



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clockwise rotation


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"Clockwise" Quotes from Famous Books



... and straightened out—almost. The vastness of all creation seemed still to revolve slowly about him. The monstrous globe which was Earth moved sedately from above his head to under his feet and continued the slow revolution. The Platform rotated in a clockwise direction. He was drifting very ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... depressions to be met with during a voyage, and these will be avoided by the airship flying round them. In the northern hemisphere, depressions generally travel from west to east and invariably rotate in a counter-clockwise direction with the wind on the south side blowing from the west and on the north side blowing from the east. Going west, the airship would fly to the north of a depression to take advantage of the wind circulating round the edge, and going east ...
— British Airships, Past, Present, and Future • George Whale


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


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