Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A counterclockwise rotation, especially of the plane of polarized light.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The rotation of the plane of polarization of light toward the left.
Wiktionary
- n. Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics & Chem.) Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.
WordNet 3.0
- n. rotation to the left
Etymologies
- From levo- + rotation (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘levorotation’.
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[Open] Sinister Ascriptions
These words either descend from a word or root referring to the left side or direction (e.g., “sinister”) or refer to the concept themselves. Many, but not all, have negative connotations.
sinister, sinistral, gauche, bend sinister, bar sinister, sinister-handed, sinisterly, oculus sinister, ambisinister, sinister base, sinister aspect, ramus sinister and 43 more...
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laeo-, laevo-, levo-
on the left; counterclockwise
laeotropic, laevorotation, levogyrate, levorotatory, levorotary, levorotation
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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qd
speculum, chest pain, labor, delivery, summa, c-section, levorotation
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