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amphicheiral

amphicheiral adjective: equivalent to its mirror image.

Adjective

amphicheiral (not comparable)

  1. Equivalent to its mirror image.
    • My soul's an amphicheiral knot
      Upon a liquid vortex wrought
      By Intellect, in the Unseen residing.
      And thine dost like a convict sit
      With marlinspike untwisting it
      Only to find its knottiness abiding;
      Since all the tools for its untying
      In four dimensioned space are lying,
      Wherein thy fancy...1878, James Clerk Maxwell, A Paradoxical Ode to Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.D., sourced from G. C., “The Life of Clerk Maxwell”, Nature, no. 680, vol. 27, 9 November 1882, pp. 26-28

Questions about amphicheiral

What does amphicheiral mean?
Amphicheiral means equivalent to its mirror image.
What part of speech is amphicheiral?
Amphicheiral is an adjective.

Words near amphicheiral in the dictionary

  1. amphibs
  2. amphicarpic
  3. amphicarpous
  4. amphicarpy
  5. amphicelous
  6. amphicheiral
  7. amphichelydian
  8. amphichelydians
  9. amphichiral
  10. amphichroic
  11. amphichromatic

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