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laevorotation

laevorotation is the alternative 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 laevorotation

plurallaevorotations

Questions about laevorotation

What is laevorotation the alternative form of?
Laevorotation is the alternative form of levorotation.

Words near laevorotation in the dictionary

  1. laevoelevation
  2. laevogyrate
  3. laevogyre
  4. laevogyrous
  5. laevorotary
  6. laevorotation
  7. laevorotations
  8. laevorotatory
  9. laevoversion
  10. laevoversions
  11. laevulin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laevorotation (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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