Right-handed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Right-handed \Right"-hand`ed\, a.
     1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the
        left.
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     2. Having the same direction or course as the movement of the


        hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a
        revolving object looked at from a given direction.
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     3. (Zool.) Having the whorls rising from left to right;
        dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of
        {Scalaria}.
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     {Right-handed screw}, a screw, the threads of which, like
        those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a
        direction that the screw advances away from the observer
        when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  clockwise \clock"wise`\, a. & adv.
     in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as
     viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that
     direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a
     plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of
     the direction of a spiral, in which case the term
     {right-handed} is more common. Opposite of
     {counterclockwise}, and {left-handed}.
  
     Syn: right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  right-handed
       adj 1: using or intended for the right hand; "a right-handed
              batter"; "right-handed scissors" [ant: {left-handed},
              {ambidextrous}]
       2: rotating to the right [syn: {dextrorotary}, {dextrorotatory}]