CLOCKWISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clockwise mean? 

• CLOCKWISE (adjective)
  The adjective CLOCKWISE has 1 sense:

1. in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock

  Familiarity information: CLOCKWISE used as an adjective is very rare.

• CLOCKWISE (adverb)
  The adverb CLOCKWISE has 1 sense:

1. in the direction that the hands of a clock move

  Familiarity information: CLOCKWISE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOCKWISE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock

Similar:

dextrorotary; dextrorotatory; right-handed (rotating to the right)

Also:

dextral (of or on the right)

Antonym:

counterclockwise (in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock)

• CLOCKWISE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the direction that the hands of a clock move

Context example:

please move clockwise in a circle

Antonym:

counterclockwise (in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move)

Pertainym:

clockwise (in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock)

 Context examples 

The ability of a chiral substance to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of transmitted plane-polarized light, either clockwise (to the right) or counterclockwise (to the left).

(Optical Rotation, NCI Thesaurus)

The ability of an optically active substance to rotate the plane of polarized light clockwise (to the right).

(Dextrorototary, NCI Thesaurus)

Chirality axis based stereochemistry where, using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) priority rules, the priorities (from highest to lowest) of the substituent atoms exist in a clockwise direction.

(Axial R, NCI Thesaurus)