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Anticlockwise Downwards and Upwards Open Circle Arrows
Also known as: Refresh, Rotate, Switch
Unicode: U+1F504
Description
Two arrows forming a circle, pointing in an anticlockwise direction. Similar to symbols sometimes used for refresh or rotate. May also be used to indicate a task is in progress. Previously showed in a clockwise direction on Windows.
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Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
anticlockwisearrowcounterclockwisecounterclockwise arrows buttonwithershins
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :counterclockwise_arrows_button: | |
GitHub | :arrows_counterclockwise: | |
Slack | :arrows_counterclockwise: | |
Discord | :arrows_counterclockwise: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> User interface symbols
Definition:
Two arrows forming a circle, pointing in an anticlockwise direction. Some web browsers use a symbol similar to this for the refresh function http://emojipedia.org/anticlockwise-downwards-and-upwards-open-circle-arrows/
Adjectives:
- In the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock
- In a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.
- Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise
- In the opposite direction to the hands of an analogue clock.
Verbs:
- Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner
- To synchronize.
Nouns:
- Update of a display.
- The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
- Possible direction of a circular motion
- Circular motion can occur in two possible directions.
- In the opposite direction of how the hands of an analogue clock move.
- Counterclockwise (anticlockwise) when referred to as unlucky
- Widdershins is a term meaning to go counter-clockwise, to go anti-clockwise, or to go lefthandwise, or to walk around an object by always keeping it on the left.
- The process of reconciling the differences between data stored in one location and a copy of the same data stored in another location.
- A menu item that initiates the process of synchronization.
- In multimedia, precise real-time processing. Audio and video are transmitted over a network in synchronization so that they can be played back together without delayed responses.
- The matching of timing between computers on a network, or between components of a computer, so that all are coordinated.
- In computer science, synchronization refers to one of two distinct but related concepts: synchronization of processes, and synchronization of data.