Counterclockwise vs An - What's the difference?
counterclockwise | an |
(US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
(US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise
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(UK, non-standard) used in many British regional accents before some words beginning with a pronounced h
(archaic) If, so long as.
(archaic) as if; as though.
In each; to or for each; per.
As an adverb counterclockwise
is (us|canada) in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.As an adjective counterclockwise
is (us|canada) moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.As a noun an is
favor, grace.counterclockwise
English
Alternative forms
* counter-clockwiseAdverb
(-)Synonyms
* (opposite of clockwise) anticlockwise (UK), contraclockwiseAdjective
(-)an
English
(wikipedia an)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Article
(head)Usage notes
* The article (an) is used before vowel sounds and (optionally) before silent aitches, and (a) before consonant sounds. * The various article senses of (a), all are senses of (term).Etymology 2
From (etyl) anConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- An it please you, my lord.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Original Version of 1797) 61-64:
- At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.
Etymology 3
.Etymology 4
From the (etyl) preposition an/on.Preposition
(English prepositions)- I was only going twenty miles an hour.