clockwise
About 1.80 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.
Turn the handle clockwise to open it.
- adjective Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock.
In the southern hemisphere the flow of air around a low-pressure system is clockwise.
Similar words
right-handed dextrorotatory dextrorotary rightwards right-hand descending schedule right downstream top-down
Often followed by
direction from rotation and or around to in until
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