clockwise
Speech parts
1. clockwise - Adjective
2. clockwise - Adverb
Meaning
in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock
in the direction that the hands of a clock move
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Examples
please move clockwise in a circle
A center with a clockwise sense of rotation is an R or rectus center and a center with a counterclockwise sense of rotation is an S or sinister center.
Although there are only static electric and magnetic fields, the calculation of the Poynting vector produces a clockwise circular flow of electromagnetic energy, with no beginning or end.
After a bust or a stand, play proceeds to the next hand clockwise around the table.
A half-twist clockwise gives an embedding of the Möbius strip different from that of a half-twist counterclockwise – that is, as an embedded object in Euclidean space the Möbius strip is a chiral object with right- or left-handedness.
Along tight latitude circles, counterclockwise is east and clockwise is west.