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English
Etymology
From clock + -wise.
Pronunciation
Adverb
clockwise (not comparable)
- In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.
Turn the handle clockwise to open it.
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Translations
in a circular fashion in the same direction as the hands of an analogue clock
- Arabic: بِإِتِّجَاه عَقَارِب السَّاعَة (biʔittijāh ʕaqārib as-sāʕa)
- Bulgarian: по посока на часовнковата стрелка (po posoka na časovnkovata strelka)
- Catalan: en el sentit horari
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 順時針／顺时针 (zh) (shùn shízhēn)
- Czech: po směru hodinových ručiček
- Danish: med uret
- Dutch: rechtsom (nl), met de klok mee, in wijzerzin
- Esperanto: dekstrume, horloĝdirekte
- Estonian: päripäeva
- Finnish: myötäpäivään (fi)
- French: dans le sens des aiguilles d’une montre (fr), dans le sens horaire (fr)
- Galician: en sentido das agullas do reloxo, en sentido horario
- Georgian: საათის ისრის მიმართულებით (saatis isris mimartulebit)
- German: im Uhrzeigersinn (de)
- Greek: δεξιόστροφα (el) (dexióstrofa), κατά τη φορά των δεικτών του ρολογιού (katá ti forá ton deiktón tou rologioú)
- Hebrew: כיוון השעון (kivún hasha'ón)
- Hindi: दक्षिणावर्त्त (dakṣiṇāvartt)
- Hungarian: az óra járásával megegyező irányba
- Indonesian: searah jarum jam, arah jam
- Irish: deiseal
- Italian: in senso orario
- Japanese: 右回り (みぎまわり, migimawari), 時計回り (ja) (とけいまわり, tokei-mawari)
- Korean: 시계 방향 (sigye banghyang)
- Maori: whakatekaraka
- Norman: auve lé solé, comme lé solé
- Norwegian: medurs
- Bokmål: med klokken
- Nynorsk: med klokka, medsols, rettsøles
- Polish: zgodnie z ruchem wskazówek zegara, prawoskrętnie
- Portuguese: no sentido horário, no sentido dos ponteiros do relógio
- Romanian: în sens orar, în sensul acelor de ceasornic
- Russian: по часово́й стре́лке (po časovój strélke), по́солонь (pósolonʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: deiseil
- Slovak: v smere ručičiek
- Spanish: en el sentido de las agujas del reloj, en sentido horario, dextrorsamente (es) (botany), dextrógiramente
- Swedish: medurs (sv), medsols (sv)
- Tagalog: pataknaan
- Tibetan: ནང་སྐོར (nang skor, literally “the Buddhist way around”), གཡས་འཁོར (g.yas 'khor, literally “right-turning”), གཡས་འཁྱིལ (g.yas 'khyil, literally “right-winding”)
- Turkish: saat yönünde
- Ukrainian: за годиннико́вою стрі́лкою (za hodynnykóvoju strílkoju), за годиннико́вою вказі́вкою (za hodynnykóvoju vkazívkoju)
- Urdu: بائیں سے دائیں (bāẽ se dāẽ)
- Vietnamese: theo chiều kim đồng hồ
- Welsh: clocwedd (cy)
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Adjective
clockwise (not comparable)
- 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.
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