HANDEDNESS


Meaning of HANDEDNESS in English

I. noun

( -es )

1. : the quality or state of being handed

2. : a tendency to use one hand rather than the other

a test for handedness

II. noun

1.

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

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

2. : the property of having either a clockwise or counterclockwise structure (as the coiling of a snail shell) or motion (as the corkscrew movement of some microorganisms or their flagella or cilia)

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