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Definition of Counterclockwise rotation

1. Noun. Rotation to the left.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterclockwise Rotation

Literary usage of Counterclockwise rotation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Laboratory Manual in Physics: To Accompany Black and Davis' "Practical by Newton Henry Black (1913)
"Compare the sum tending to produce clockwise rotation with the sum tending to produce counterclockwise rotation. When several parallel forces are in ..."

2. Essentials of Physics by George Arthur Hoadley (1921)
"Moments producing counterclockwise rotation are sometimes called positive, and those producing clockwise rotation negative : if this is done, ..."

3. A Laboratory Manual in Physics: To Accompany Black and Davis' "Practical by Newton Henry Black (1913)
"Compare the sum tending to produce clockwise rotation with the sum tending to produce counterclockwise rotation. When several parallel forces are in ..."

4. Examples in Magnetism by Frank Eugene Austin (1916)
""Counterclockwise" rotation is considered as positive, ( + ), in sign, and is indicated by the arrow in figure 2. The horizontal position (as OD, ..."

5. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society by American Mathematical Society (1919)
"To account for the force on the cylinder in the direction of the axis of ;r it is necessary to suppose that a vortex with counterclockwise rotation moves ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"These disturbances were again related to the specific type of former rotation; for counterclockwise rotation was followed by a right twist of the head and a ..."

7. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by Arthur Graham Hall, Fred Goodrich Frink (1910)
"As in Art. 3, counterclockwise rotation generates positive angles ; clockwise rotation, negative. In the sexagesimal system of angle measurement the ..."

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