anticlockwise vs dextrorotatory

anticlockwise

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. 

adv
  • In an anticlockwise fashion. 

dextrorotatory

adj
  • That rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise. Notation: (+) or formerly lowercase d-. 

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