counterclockwisely

adverb

Counterclockwise.

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Meanings

adverbcounterclockwisely (not comparable)
  1. nonstandardnot comparablerareCounterclockwise.

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

    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, page 531
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    Hence when z goes along the real axis from −∞ to ∞, Z goes along the unit circle n times counterclockwisely.

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

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

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

Origin

From counterclockwise + -ly.

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