anticlockwise
advEtymology From anti- + clockwise.
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Commonwealth, Ireland, UK In an anticlockwise fashion.
- Synonyms
- counterclockwise, counter-clockwise, widdershins, withershins
- Antonyms
- clockwise
anticlockwise
adjUK /ˌæn.tiˈklɒk.waɪz/ · US /ˌæn.tɪˈklɑkˌwaɪz/
Etymology From anti- + clockwise.
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Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, 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 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 Joints”, in Federico M. Mazzolani, editor, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas:
- Synonyms
- counterclockwise, counter-clockwise, laevorotatory, levorotatory, positive
- Antonyms
- clockwise
- Derived terms
- anticlockwisely