counterclockwise

CEFRC1

/kˌaʊntəˈrklɔkwaɪz/

adjective · adverb

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In plain English

01
adjective
Moving in the opposite direction to clock hands.
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adjective
Extra detail
Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

Examples

How do you tighten this screw? Clockwise or counterclockwise?
The car was rotating counterclockwise (when viewed from above) until it faced to the right.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The combination unit was traversing a straight section of roadway, on an approximate 4 percent upgrade, when the tractor began to jackknife. As the power unit rotated clockwise, it left the roadway to the right and traveled several feet before the driver corrected the jackknife. The unit was redirected toward the travel lanes, however, before it re-entered the roadway, it rotated counterclockwise, and the driver lost control.
1988 October 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “CASE NO. 9”, in Safety Study: Case Summaries of 189 Heavy Truck Accident Investigations, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2017
The obliquities of the equators of (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto: I Charon to the orbit of their barycenter around the Sun are large enough that the poles they rotate about in a counterclockwise direction are on the south side of the invariable plane.
2011, B. A. Archinal et al., “Erratum to: Reports of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2006 & 2009”, in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, volume 110, number 4, Springer, →ISSN, page 402

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From counter- + clock + -wise.