Definition of "anticlockwise" []

• Counterclockwise. (adverb)

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• "Proof that money could turn the world on its head and make it spin anticlockwise."
• "But it would jiggle clockwise and anticlockwise a bit because of random thermal noise."
• "Hurricanes and tropical storms spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere (as opposed to anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere) due to the Coriolis effect."