Difference between Anticlockwise and Counterclockwise

What is the difference between Anticlockwise and Counterclockwise?

Anticlockwise as an adverb is in an anticlockwise fashion. while Counterclockwise as an adverb is in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

Anticlockwise

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: In an anticlockwise fashion.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: 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.

Counterclockwise

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise

We hope you now know whether to use Anticlockwise or Counterclockwise in your sentence.

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