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lævorotation

lævorotation is the obsolete form of levorotation.

Meaning of levorotation

Noun

levorotation (plural levorotations)

  1. Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
    Synonyms:
    levogyration

Forms of lævorotation

plurallævorotations

Questions about lævorotation

What is lævorotation the obsolete form of?
Lævorotation is the obsolete form of levorotation.

Words near lævorotation in the dictionary

  1. lævigates
  2. lævigating
  3. lævo-
  4. lævogyration
  5. lævogyre
  6. lævorotation
  7. lævorotations
  8. lævorotatory
  9. lævulose
  10. lèse majesté
  11. lèse-majesté

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lævorotation (page history and authors); levorotation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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