"spinward" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "antispinward"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spin",
        "3": "ward"
      },
      "expansion": "spin + -ward",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "spin + -ward",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more spinward",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most spinward",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinward (comparative more spinward, superlative most spinward)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "spin‧ward"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ward",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books",
          "text": "It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books",
          "text": "Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, page 215",
          "text": "spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse",
          "text": "\"[…] 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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin."
      ],
      "id": "en-spinward-en-adv-2PvfXge0",
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "rotating",
          "rotating"
        ],
        [
          "reference",
          "reference"
        ],
        [
          "frame",
          "frame"
        ],
        [
          "spin",
          "spin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspɪnwɜ(ɹ)d/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinward"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "antispinward"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spin",
        "3": "ward"
      },
      "expansion": "spin + -ward",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "spin + -ward",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more spinward",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most spinward",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinward (comparative more spinward, superlative most spinward)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "spin‧ward"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ward",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books",
          "text": "It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books",
          "text": "Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, page 215",
          "text": "spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse",
          "text": "\"[…] 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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "rotating",
          "rotating"
        ],
        [
          "reference",
          "reference"
        ],
        [
          "frame",
          "frame"
        ],
        [
          "spin",
          "spin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspɪnwɜ(ɹ)d/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinward"
}