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anti-clockwise

anti-clockwise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anticlockwise.

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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Origin of anti-clockwise

From anti- + clock + -wise.

Questions about anti-clockwise

What is anti-clockwise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Anti-clockwise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anticlockwise.

Words near anti-clockwise in the dictionary

  1. anti-clericalism
  2. anti-climaces
  3. anti-climax
  4. anti-climaxes
  5. anti-climb
  6. anti-clockwise
  7. anti-coalition
  8. anti-cockroach
  9. anti-collision
  10. anti-colonialism
  11. Anti-Comintern

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-clockwise (page history and authors); anticlockwise (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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