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Definition of Clockwise

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

2. Adverb. In the direction that the hands of a clock move. "Please move clockwise in a circle"

Definition of Clockwise

1. a. & adv. Like the motion of the hands of a clock; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.

Definition of Clockwise

1. Adverb. (context: of movement) In a circular fashion so as to be moving to the right at the top of the circle and to the left at the bottom, in the way that the hands of an analogue/analog clock move. ¹

2. Adjective. Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clockwise

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clockwise

clockface clockfaces clocking clockless clocklike clockmaker clockmakers clockmaking clockpunk clocks

clocksmith clocksucker clocktower clocktowers clockward clockwise (current term) clockwise rotation clockwork clockwork orange clockwork oranges

clockwork universe clockwork universes clockworklike clockworks clockworky clocortolone clod clodded cloddier cloddiest

Literary usage of Clockwise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Restoring the front and rear cam axles to their original positions (pointers horizontally outward), rotate the rear axle 90°, clockwise, relative to ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Restoring the front and rear cam axles to their original positions (pointers horizontally outward), rotate the rear axle 90°, clockwise, relative to the ..."

3. Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual by John Clayton Tracy (1907)
"For angles clockwise numbers increase clockwise, and for angles ... This leads to confusion which would be avoided if the terms clockwise and ..."

4. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1906)
"Viz. field clockwise, brow to chin. Subject H. Head horizontally to ... Vis. field clockwise, chin to brow. Subject H. Same repeated, with same results. ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"(2) Those cases showing a left twist of the head gave a much shorter response to the clockwise unit stimulus; for the average (6.40 ± 0.09 seconds) is about ..."

6. A Mission Record of the California Indians: From a Manuscript in the by Alfred Louis Kroeber, José Francisco de Paula Señán, Vicente Francisco Sarría (1910)
"Those of the Porno run clockwise. Among the Maidu the direction is clockwise, ... Among the Yokuts the coil in flat baskets is clockwise; in the so-called ..."

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