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/ˈspɪnwɜ(ɹ)d/ · adverb
(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin..
It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.
Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...
spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.
"[…] 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."
Use spinward when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Spinward means (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include antispinward.
It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.
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