anticlockwise vs clockwise

anticlockwise

adv
  • In an anticlockwise fashion. 

adj
  • 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. 

clockwise

adv
  • In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock. 

adj
  • Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock. 

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