anticlockwise

Etymology

anti- + clockwise

adj

  1. (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, 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 way the hands of an analogue clock move.

adv

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.

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