chirality
noun/kaɪˈɹælɪti/
Etymology From chiral + -ity = chir- + -ality.
1
The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.
- Synonyms
- handedness
- Derived terms
- axial chirality, biochirality, biohomochirality, cryptochirality, heterochirality, homochirality, pseudochirality
- Related terms
- achiral, achirality, chiral, enantiomer