counterclockwisely

counterclockwisely

English

Alternative forms

• counter-clockwisely

Etymology

counterclockwise +‎ -ly

Adverb

counterclockwisely (not comparable)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Counterclockwise.
   • 1993, Siu-Wing Cheng et al., "Optimal Rectilinear Steiner Tree for Extremal Point Sets", in K. W. Ng et al. (eds.), Algorithms and Computation: 4th International Symposium, ISAAC '93, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 531:

     By rotating 90 degrees counterclockwisely, each Type II configuration becomes a Type I configuration.

   • 1996, Hiroki Tanabe, Functional Analytic Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Marcel Dekker, Inc., page 219:

     Hence when z goes along the real axis from −∞ to ∞, Z goes along the unit circle n times counterclockwisely.

   • 2001 October 4, "sheep defender" (username), "Re: The Sun, all i can say is WOW!!, in alt.astronomy.solar, Usenet:

     Every significant gravitational mass in this system moves around our counterclockwisely rotating star in the counterclockwise direction likewise!

Related terms

• clockwisely, anticlockwisely

Translations

counterclockwise — see counterclockwise