Spinward

Quick meaning: Spinward is an adverb meaning (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin.

Meaning

(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin.

Example Sentences

It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.

spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.

Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward .

"[…] 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."

Antonyms for spinward

Common opposites include antispinward.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antispinward, hubward, planetside, poleward, polarward, apsidally.

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