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ACW

ACW is the abbreviation of anticlockwise.

ACW is the initialism of American Civil War.

Meaning of anticlockwise

Adjective

anticlockwise (not comparable)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) 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.
    • 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.2024, S. Lalit Sagar, Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, T. P. Anand, Vasant A. Matsagar, “Development of a Quasi-Static Bidirectional Loading Protocol for the Seismic Evaluation of Hybrid RC-SCC Beam-Column...

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Meaning of American Civil War

Proper noun

the American Civil War

  1. A war fought in the United States between 1861 and 1865, between the Northern states (Union) and Southern states (Confederacy).

Questions about ACW

What is ACW the abbreviation of?
ACW is the abbreviation of anticlockwise.

Words near ACW in the dictionary

  1. acutorsion
  2. acuyari
  3. Acuña
  4. ACV
  5. ACVs
  6. ACW
  7. ACWA
  8. Acworth
  9. Acworths
  10. ACWV
  11. acyanic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ACW (page history and authors); anticlockwise (page history and authors); American Civil War (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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