handedness

noun hand·ed·ness \-nəs\

Definition of HANDEDNESS

: a tendency to use one hand rather than the other

a : the property of an object (as a molecule) of not being identical with its mirror image : chirality

b : either of the two configurations of an object that may exist in forms which are nonidentical mirror images

1915

Medical Dictionary

noun hand·ed·ness \-nəs\

: a tendency to use one hand rather than the other

: the property of an object (as a molecule) of not being identical with its mirror image

: the property of having either a clockwise or counterclockwise motion (as the corkscrew movement of some microorganisms or their flagella or cilia)

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