in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom, in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move
Of movement, in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom, in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move
If something is moving anticlockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move. The cutters are opened by turning the knob anticlockwise. clockwise Anticlockwise is also an adjective. an anticlockwise route around the coast. moving in the opposite direction to the hands of a clock American Equivalent: counterclockwise clockwise
in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move; "please move counterclockwise in a circle!"