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Definition of Leftward
1. adv. Toward or on the left side.
Definition of Leftward
1. Adjective. To or from the left. ¹
2. Adverb. To or from the left. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leftward
1. toward the left [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leftward
Literary usage of Leftward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Hence sin and cos arc lating it as a rigid figure leftward through - restricted
to the values i, — i, and intermediate units of length. ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... and to leftward ranged Thalia, Thetis, and fair Melite, With virgin Panopea,
and the nymphs ... leftward ..."
3. The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) by Yung Sik Kim (2000)
"According to Chu Hsi, the calendar specialists merely took the difference between
the faster leftward rotation of heaven and the slower leftward ..."
4. The Inscriptions of Kourion by Terence Bruce Mitford (1971)
"IV, VIII) and by the presence of both directions, the leftward seemingly with
thirteen instances and the rightward accordingly with three.1 The ..."
5. Newtonian Physics by Benjamin Crowell (2003)
"(b) Forces in which the left spring participates: hand's leftward force on left
spring ...left spring's rightward force on hand right spring's rightward ..."
6. Increasing Production, Decreasing Costs by Charles Underwood Carpenter (1920)
"The speed in feet per minute is to be read on the upper column from xl rightward,
the feed in inches on the same column from xl leftward. ..."
7. Collected Essays and Reviews by William James (1920)
"correct this, simply confirm and intensify the impression it gives us of a leftward
whirling in the field of view: we seem to ourselves to be periodically ..."
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