clockwise

English

clockwise

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Celtic *klokkosder.?

Early Medieval Latin cloccader.

Old Northern French cloquebor.

Old Dutch *klokka

Middle Dutch clockebor.

Middle English clokke

English clock

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *wéydos

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós

Proto-Germanic *wīsaz

Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz

Proto-West Germanic *-wīs

Old English -wīs

Middle English -wis

English -wise

English clockwise

From clock + -wise.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 August 2025:

     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

• Ahtna: cʼaʼaałdzeʼ
• 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
• Māori: 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
• Māori: 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