clockwise

adv

1. (not-comparable)In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.

   “Turn the handle clockwise to open it.”

   “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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.”

   “The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]”