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(mathematics, electronics) Abbreviation of anticlockwise. [(South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) 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 way the hands of an analogue clock move.]
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Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anticlockwise. [(Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.]
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Describing movement from the periphery to the centre of a circle
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(South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) 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 way the hands of an analogue clock move.
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(rare, nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
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rotating in an opposite direction
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(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
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(of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
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Involving two sides or approaches
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Abbreviation of counterclockwise. [(US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.]
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In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.
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(rare, nonstandard) Clockwise.
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The quality of being clockwise.
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oriented in an opposite direction
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Rotation in a contrary direction.
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(rare) turning in the other direction
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Alternative form of counterclockwise [(US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.]
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(US) counterclockwise; anticlockwise
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(US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
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(rare, nonstandard) Counterclockwise.
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(rare) The quality of being counterclockwise.
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flowing in an opposite direction
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nutation in the opposite direction
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To rotate in the opposite direction.
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rotation in the opposite direction
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A spiral running in the opposite direction to another spiral.
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twisting in an opposite direction
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Initialism of clockwise. [Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock.]
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Moving or directed from the right to the left.
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(medicine) A turning to the right.
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(of a built structure) Angular in an awkward way.
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(not comparable) With the inside surface turned to be on the outside.
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Turning to the left (typically in a left-handed spiral)
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Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
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(rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
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(nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
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(not comparable) Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
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(rare) Clockwise, moving clockwise.
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(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
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(medicine) A left-handed individual.
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Rising spirally from right to left (of the observer); sinistrorse.
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Turning to the left (of the observer) in the ascending line.
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(medicine) A turning to the left.
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(nonstandard) clockwise.
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(archaeology) Originating from an uncertain side of the body, either left or right.
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Anticlockwise, counter-clockwise.
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Alternative form of withershins [Anti-clockwise, in the contrary direction, especially to the left or opposite to the direction of the sun.]
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Anti-clockwise, in the contrary direction, especially to the left or opposite to the direction of the sun.
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