Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A counterclockwise rotation, especially of the plane of polarized light.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The rotation of the plane of polarization of light toward the left.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (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.

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  • noun Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun rotation to the left

Etymologies

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From levo- +‎ rotation

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