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counterclockwise

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    In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.CanadaUSnot-comparable

    • The combination unit was traversing a straight section of roadway, on an approximate 4 percent upgrade, when the tractor began to jackknife. As the power unit rotated clockwise, it left the roadway to the right and traveled several feet bef
    • The obliquities of the equators of (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto: I Charon to the orbit of their barycenter around the Sun are large enough that the poles they rotate about in a counterclockwise direction are on the south side of the in
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    Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.CanadaUSnot-comparable

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