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unidextrous

unidextrous adjective: monodextrous.

Adjective

unidextrous (comparative more unidextrous, superlative most unidextrous)

  1. monodextrous.
    • […]children on the average are unidextrous, with the right hand superior at the time they enter school, and that the unidexterity increases during the early years of adolescence.1902, Child study in Chicago, page 1108
  2. (string theory) Displaying a restricted form of supersymmetry that is one-sided, allowing only one type of transformation.
    • Using the fact that every worldsheet may be ruled by two copies of worldlines, a restricted version of Weyl's construction of representations of algebras is used to extend the recent classification of off-shell supermultiplets of iV-extended worldline supersymmetry to usual off-shell and also...2011, Weaving Worldsheet Supermultiplets from the Worldlines Within, page 1
    • Owing to the "bow-ties theorems" of Ref. [54], it is clear that this valise (3.22) by itself cannot extend even to worldsheet supersymmetry (other than the trivial extension cases of unidextrous (4,0)- and (0,4)-supersymmetry), and therefore certainly does not extend to supersymmetry in any...2012, The Real Anatomy of Complex Linear Superfields, page 13

Antonyms of unidextrous

Forms of unidextrous

comparativemore unidextrous
superlativemost unidextrous

Origin of unidextrous

From uni- + Latin dexter (“right", "skillful”) + -ous.

Questions about unidextrous

What does unidextrous mean?
Unidextrous means monodextrous.
What part of speech is unidextrous?
Unidextrous is an adjective.

Words near unidextrous in the dictionary

  1. unideological
  2. unideologically
  3. unidexterity
  4. unidextral
  5. unidextrality
  6. unidextrous
  7. unidigitate
  8. unidimensional
  9. unidimensionalities
  10. unidimensionality
  11. unidimensionally

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