clockwise

From clock +‎ -wise.

• enPR: klŏk'wīz, IPA^(key): /ˈklɒkwaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkwaɪz

clockwise (not comparable)

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

   Turn the handle clockwise to open it.

   • 2009 May 28, Alan Feuer, “In the Gilded World of Per Se’s Kitchen”, in The New York Times‎:

     The main —— or cooking —— kitchen is an inhumanly immaculate expanse of burner rings and countertops where, according to tradition, the stations move clockwise from canapé to entremetier.

• CW, dextrorotatory, sunwise, deasil

• ACW, anticlockwise (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
• CCW, counterclockwise, counter-clockwise (US, Canada)
• withershins, widdershins

clockwise (not comparable)

1. 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.

   • 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:

     The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]

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