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[syn: dextrorotary, dextrorotatory, right-handed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Right-handed \Right"-hand`ed\, a.
1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the
left.
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2. Having the same direction or course as the movement of the
hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a
revolving object looked at from a given direction.
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3. (Zool.) Having the whorls rising from left to right;
dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of
Scalaria.
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Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like
those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a
direction that the screw advances away from the observer
when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
clockwise \clock"wise`\, a. & adv.
in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as
viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that
direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a
plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of
the direction of a spiral, in which case the term
right-handed is more common. Opposite of
counterclockwise, and left-handed.
Syn: right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
right-handed
adj 1: using or intended for the right hand; "a right-handed
batter"; "right-handed scissors" [ant: ambidextrous,
left-handed, two-handed]
2: rotating to the right [syn: dextrorotary, dextrorotatory,
right-handed]