antispinward
/ˌæntiːˈspɪnwɜ(ɹ)d/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
Example Sentences
- "To antispinward was the largest mountain men had ever seen."
- "My fathers and mothers tell that we have been moving to antispinward since they were little. They remember that they had to go around a great sea, but they did not come too close, because the beasts would not eat the plants that grow around the shore."
- "Laura imagined that he would expect them to flee along the beams, and she watched his narrow face searching the impenetrable shadows antispinward of where they hid."
- "Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ..."
- "antispinward adv. in or toward the opposite direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating."
- ""[…] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track.""
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more antispinward (comparative)
most antispinward (superlative)