B l i m e y !
Love of Latin roots often gives rise to a sesquipedalian vocabulary ...
Trim Stab's term is summat that I too have never come across since I saw the first description of the beautiful de Havilland Hornet, with its "handed" propellers as a teen-ager.
You learn something every day ...
Edited to add that without terms like those to which Trim Stab has introduced us, French is a bit cumbersome (to English ears, at least) when describing, for example, rotation - "in (or against) the direction of the hands of a watch" - so "super (or contra) divergent" fully meets the 3C's Rule, that all writing should be "Clear, Concise and Correct".
Apologies too for using the long word in my first line - I used to mutter it (those satisfying "s"-sounds) during lengthy, boring and verbose lectures and briefings, but I've never before had the occasion to use it. Self-indulgent, what ???
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