Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "clockwise" [clockwise•clock•wise]

  • In the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "clockwise" in a sentence
  • "Rub it in clockwise, just a little tiny dab, about the size of the tip of your pencil eraser."
  • "Mary Patterson expresses concern [IX, 2] that digital timepieces could result in the loss of the terms clockwise and anticlockwise (counterclockwise in the States)."
  • "According to the Times, the artworks are, clockwise from the top center: Rauschenberg's wavy line; Novros 'black square bisected by thin white lines [in 1969, Novros also created the incredibly rich, minimalist fresco on the second floor of Judd's 101 Spring St]; a computer-generated drawing by Myers; a geometric mouse by Oldenburg, "the subject of a sculpture in his current show at the Museum of Modern Art" [a sculpture which is in MoMA's permanent collection, btw]; and a template pattern by Chamberlain, "similar to one he used to produce paintings done with automobile lacquer.""