anticlockwise — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. In a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the hands of an analog clock.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Ireland
   • UK usage
   • not-comparable
   • of movement

   Synonyms

   positive

   Examples

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   The bidirectional drift excursion for the beam-column joint is applied in the anticlockwise direction as per the numbering sequence illustrated in Figs. 8a and 8b.

Adverb

1. In an anticlockwise fashion.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Ireland
   • UK usage
   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   widdershinswithershins

Adjective

1. in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock

   Synonyms

   counterclockwisecontraclockwise

Adverb

1. in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move

   Synonyms

   counterclockwise

   Examples

   please move counterclockwise in a circle!