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counterclockwisely

counterclockwisely adverb: counterclockwise.

Adverb

counterclockwisely (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Counterclockwise.
    • By rotating 90 degrees counterclockwisely, each Type II configuration becomes a Type I configuration.1993, Siu-Wing Cheng et al., "Optimal Rectilinear Steiner Tree for Extremal Point Sets", in K. W. Ng et al. (eds.), Algorithms and Computation: 4th International Symposium, ISAAC '93...
    • Hence when z goes along the real axis from −∞ to ∞, Z goes along the unit circle n times counterclockwisely.1996, Hiroki Tanabe, Functional Analytic Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Marcel Dekker, Inc., page 219

Origin of counterclockwisely

From counterclockwise + -ly.

Questions about counterclockwisely

What does counterclockwisely mean?
Counterclockwisely means counterclockwise.
What part of speech is counterclockwisely?
Counterclockwisely is an adverb.

Words near counterclockwisely in the dictionary

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

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