clockwisely

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adverb

Clockwise.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adverbclockwisely (not comparable)
  1. nonstandardnot comparablerareClockwise.

    …I can still name them — at least the major ones — clockwisely, from St. James Street side….

    1967, Scott Symons, Combat Journal for Place D'Armes, Voyageur Classics, published 2010, page 82
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    When Near Brushholder and Top Field are Plus, Armature Rotates Clockwisely, and the Car moves to the left.

    1907, Charles Remelius, “Shop Prints of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey”, in Street Railway Journal, volume XXX, page 1142

    We can imagine that the Δ points in [Δ] are drawn clockwisely on a circle of circumference Δ, in the order 0, 1, 2, …, Δ − 1, such that every two adjacent points have distance 1 on the circle.

    2012, Joshua Brody et al., “Space-Efficient Approximation Scheme for Circular Earth Mover Distance”, in David Fernández-Baca, editor, LATIN 2012: Theoretical Informatics, Springer, →ISBN, page 100

Origin

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