handedness

(-nis)

noun

  1. ability in using one hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the other
  2. Chem. the structural property of an asymmetrical molecule or object which has the mirror-image structure of another molecule or object

See handedness in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A preference for using one hand as opposed to the other.
  2. Chemistry & Physics The property that distinguishes an asymmetric from its mirror image but not from a rotated object.

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