clockwise

English

Etymology

From clock +‎ -wise.

Pronunciation

• enPR: klŏk'wīz, IPA^(key): /ˈklɒkwaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkwaɪz

Adverb

clockwise (not comparable)

1. In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.

   Turn the handle clockwise to open it.

   • 2009 May 28, Alan Feuer, “In the Gilded World of Per Se’s Kitchen”, in The New York Times‎:

     The main —— or cooking —— kitchen is an inhumanly immaculate expanse of burner rings and countertops where, according to tradition, the stations move clockwise from canapé to entremetier.

Synonyms

• CW, dextrorotatory, sunwise, deasil

Antonyms

• ACW, anticlockwise (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
• CCW, counterclockwise, counter-clockwise (US, Canada)
• withershins, widdershins

Translations

in a circular fashion in the same direction as the hands of an analogue clock

Arabic: بِإِتِّجَاه عَقَارِب السَّاعَة (biʔittijāh ʕaqārib as-sāʕa) Bulgarian: по посока на часовнковата стрелка (po posoka na časovnkovata strelka) Catalan: en el sentit horari Chinese: Mandarin: 順時針 / 顺时针 (zh) (shùn shízhēn) Czech: po směru hodinových ručiček Danish: med uret Dutch: rechtsom (nl), met de klok mee, in wijzerzin Esperanto: dekstrume, horloĝdirekte Estonian: päripäeva Finnish: myötäpäivään (fi) French: dans le sens des aiguilles d’une montre (fr), dans le sens horaire (fr) Galician: en sentido das agullas do reloxo, en sentido horario Georgian: საათის ისრის მიმართულებით (saatis isris mimartulebit) German: im Uhrzeigersinn (de) Greek: δεξιόστροφα (el) (dexióstrofa), κατά τη φορά των δεικτών του ρολογιού (katá ti forá ton deiktón tou rologioú) Hebrew: כיוון השעון (kivún hasha'ón) Hindi: दक्षिणावर्त्त (dakṣiṇāvartt) Hungarian: az óra járásával megegyező irányba Indonesian: searah jarum jam, arah jam Irish: deiseal Italian: in senso orario Japanese: 右回り (ja) (みぎまわり, migimawari), 時計回り (ja) (とけいまわり, tokei-mawari) Korean: 시계 방향 (sigye banghyang) Malay: ikut arah jam Maori: whakatekaraka Norman: auve lé solé, comme lé solé Norwegian: medurs Bokmål: med klokken Nynorsk: med klokka, medsols, rettsøles Polish: zgodnie z ruchem wskazówek zegara, prawoskrętnie Portuguese: no sentido horário, no sentido dos ponteiros do relógio Romanian: în sens orar, în sensul acelor de ceasornic Russian: по часово́й стре́лке (po časovój strélke), по́солонь (ru) (pósolonʹ) Scottish Gaelic: deiseil Slovak: v smere ručičiek Spanish: en el sentido de las agujas del reloj, en sentido horario, dextrorsamente (botany), dextrógiramente, conforme a las manecillas del reloj, en el sentido del reloj Swedish: medurs (sv), medsols (sv) Tagalog: pataknaan Tamil: வலஞ்சுழி (ta) (valañcuḻi) Thai: ตามเข็มนาฬิกา Tibetan: ནང་སྐོར (nang skor, literally “the Buddhist way around”), གཡས་འཁོར (g.yas 'khor, literally “right-turning”), གཡས་འཁྱིལ (g.yas 'khyil, literally “right-winding”) Turkish: saat yönünde Ukrainian: за годиннико́вою стрі́лкою (za hodynnykóvoju strílkoju), за годиннико́вою вказі́вкою (za hodynnykóvoju vkazívkoju) Urdu: بائیں سے دائیں (bāẽ se dāẽ) Vietnamese: theo chiều kim đồng hồ Welsh: yn glocwedd, yn null cloc, i'r dde

Adjective

clockwise (not comparable)

1. Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock.

   In the southern hemisphere the flow of air around a low-pressure system is clockwise.

   • 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:

     The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]

Derived terms

• clockwisely
• clockwiseness
• contraclockwise

Translations

moving clockwise

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 順時針 / 顺时针 (zh) (shùnshízhēn) Esperanto: dekstruma (eo) Georgian: საათის ისრის მიმართულებით მოძრავი (saatis isris mimartulebit moʒravi) German: Uhrzeigersinn (de) m Greek: δεξιόστροφος (el) m (dexióstrofos) Hebrew: כיוון השעון (kivún hasha'ón) Indonesian: arah jam Malay: ikut arah jam Maori: whakatekaraka Polish: zgodny z ruchem wskazówek zegara m, prawoskrętny (pl) Spanish: dextrógiro (es), dextrorso (botany), horario (es) Tagalog: pataknaan Tibetan: ནང་སྐོར (nang skor, literally “the Buddhist way around”), གཡས་འཁོར (g.yas 'khor, literally “right-turning”), གཡས་འཁྱིལ (g.yas 'khyil, literally “right-winding”) Welsh: clocwedd (cy)

See also

• Clockwise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia