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counterclockwise

counterclockwise adverb: in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

Adverb

counterclockwise (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, US) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
    • The combination unit was traversing a straight section of roadway, on an approximate 4 percent upgrade, when the tractor began to jackknife. As the power unit rotated clockwise, it left the roadway to the right and traveled several feet before the driver corrected the jackknife. The unit was...1988 October 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “CASE NO. 9”, in Safety Study: Case Summaries of 189 Heavy Truck Accident Investigations, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2017
    • The obliquities of the equators of (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto: I Charon to the orbit of their barycenter around the Sun are large enough that the poles they rotate about in a counterclockwise direction are on the south side of the invariable plane.2011, B. A. Archinal et al., “Erratum to: Reports of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2006 & 2009”, in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, volume...

Adjective

counterclockwise (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, US) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

counterclockwise meaning in Tamil and Bengali

counterclockwise in Tamil

இடஞ்சுழி

counterclockwise in Bengali

ঘড়ির কাঁটার বিপরীত দিকে

Examples of counterclockwise in a sentence

  • Pick up your broom or mop, and clean your floor counterclockwise.
  • We were a platoon of nine carrying the hopes of Team Barloworld through this twenty-one stage counterclockwise yomp around France.
  • To skew counterclockwise, click the current value and then either type a value between −1 and −89 or drag down.

All 10 example sentences with counterclockwise

Synonyms of counterclockwise

Forms of counterclockwise

alternative formcounter-clockwise

Origin of counterclockwise

From counter- + clock + -wise.

Words formed from counterclockwise

Questions about counterclockwise

What does counterclockwise mean?
Counterclockwise means in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
What is counterclockwise in Tamil?
Counterclockwise in Tamil is இடஞ்சுழி. See Counterclockwise meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is counterclockwise?
Counterclockwise can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near counterclockwise in the dictionary

  1. counterclaimed
  2. counterclaimer
  3. counterclaimers
  4. counterclaiming
  5. counterclaims
  6. counterclockwise
  7. counterclockwisely
  8. counterclockwiseness
  9. countercoalition
  10. countercoalitions
  11. countercode

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counterclockwise (page history and authors); counterclockwise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); counterclockwise (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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