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contra solem

Against the sun, hence cyclonic, descriptive of motion turning to the left in the Northern Hemisphere and to the right in the Southern Hemisphere; the reverse of cum sole. (These terms were introduced by V. W. Ekman in 1923. ) See also withershins.

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