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handedness

Main Entry: hand·ed·ness

Pronunciation: \-nəs\

Function: noun

Date: 1915

1 : a tendency to use one hand rather than the other
2 a : the property of an object (as a molecule) of not being identical with its mirror image : chirality b : either of the two configurations of an object that may exist in forms which are nonidentical mirror images

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