right-hand·ed /-ˈhændɪd/
(a.)用右手的,向右轉的,右旋性的
right-hand·ed /-ˈhændɪd/ 形容詞
右利手的
Right-hand·ed, a.
1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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.
3. Zool. Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.
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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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]