Both Venus and Uranus have retrograde, i.e. clockwise, rotation.
The sun rotates in a counterclockwise direction when viewed from above its north pole.
The hands of a clock rotate clockwise.
Cyclosis occurs in a clock-wise direction.
That means that if you observe from the north, it would rotate counterclockwise - the direction opposite of the rotation of a clock's hands.
counter clock wise.
All the planets in our solar system do this, except Venus and Uranus."Counterclockwise", for a planet's rotation, means "as seen from a place above the Earth's Northpole".
It's the opposite direction of the normal rotation of the hands of a clock. Looking at a clock face, the hands travel over the numbers 1,2,3,4 etc - counter-clockwise they's move in the reverse direction - 4,3,2,1 etc.
The meaning of clockwise movement is movement in the same direction of the hands of a clock, or in a circle from left to right. Anticlockwise movement is movement in a circle from right to left.
When looking up at the North Pole from above, the Earth appears to rotate counterclockwise or eastward. This rotation gives us our day and night cycle as different parts of the Earth are either facing towards or away from the Sun.
In physics, the abbreviation "ccw" stands for counterclockwise. It refers to the direction of rotation or motion that is opposite to the direction of a clock's hands.
Fans rotate in a clockwise direction because it enables the air the pushed in a downward direction. This will allow the fan to cool a room more effciently over time.
The term is counter clockwise.