Short for 'counterclockwise,' the direction opposite to the way clock hands move.
Abbreviated form of 'counter' plus 'clockwise,' created in modern English as mechanical clocks became the standard time reference.
CCW and CW are the only directional terms that assume everyone on Earth thinks the same way—the clock face is so universal we forgot other cultures described rotation differently.
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