handedness
handedness
Definition
hand·ed·ness (-nis)
noun
- ability in using one hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the other
- Chem. the structural property of an asymmetrical molecule or object which has the mirror-image structure of another molecule or object
handedness
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- connection: On the conformation of proteins: The handedness of the connection between parallel beta strands.
- structure: This method uses a defined geometry in the data collection, and is able to find the handedness of the structure unambiguously.
Possessives
- child: Routine ultrasound screening in pregnancy and the children's subsequent handedness.
Converse of object
- leave: This underlying biology allows us to understand the way in which left handedness has been treated in history.
- suggest: Research with other animals suggests that handedness, footedness, etc. may also occur.
- know: We do know that handedness is determined by a greater dominance of one side of the brain over the other.
- develop: An interrupted development hinders the brain from developing a natural handedness.
Adjective modifier
- heavy: Everything went off peacefully, despite the heavy handedness of the police.
- left: I have never been taught any specific ways to compensate my left handedness.
- high: It is often the petty injustices and the high handedness of minor bureaucrats which often outrage and alienate Mr and Mrs Joe Public.
- right: A cholesteric ( or twisted nematic ) liquid crystal is chiral: the molecules have left or right handedness.
- opposite: For every particle except the neutrinos there is an antiparticle of the opposite handedness.
- even: Mayors generally go out of their way to display their even handedness in political matters during the year.
Preposition: in
- human: The results are discussed in the general context of the evolution of handedness in humans.
- population: Evolution of the polymorphism of handedness in human populations.
Browse dictionary entries near handedness
- -handed
- handed
- handcuffs
- handcuff
- handcraft
- handclasp
- handcart
- handcar
- handbreadth
- handbook
- Handel
- handfast
- handfasting
- handful
- handgrip
- handgun
- handhold
- handicap
- handicapped
- handicapper
