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PRONUNCIATION OF CHIRAL

chiral  [ˈkaɪrəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHIRAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Chiral is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CHIRAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

chiral

Chirality

Chirality /kaɪˈrælɪtiː/ is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word chirality is derived from the Greek, χειρ, "hand", a familiar chiral object. An object or a system is chiral if it is not identical to its mirror image, that is, it cannot be superposed onto it. A chiral object and its mirror image are called enantiomorphs or, when referring to molecules, enantiomers. A non-chiral object is called achiral and can be superposed on its mirror image. The term was first used by Lord Kelvin in 1893 in the second Robert Boyle Lecture at the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club which was published in 1894. I call any geometrical figure, or group of points, 'chiral', and say that it has chirality if its image in a plane mirror, ideally realized, cannot be brought to coincide with itself. Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized example of chirality: The left hand is a non-superimposable mirror image of the right hand; no matter how the two hands are oriented, it is impossible for all the major features of both hands to coincide.

Definition of chiral in the English dictionary

The definition of chiral in the dictionary is of or demonstrating chirality; handed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHIRAL


achiral
eɪˈkaɪrəl
antiretroviral
ˈæntɪˈrɛtrəʊˌvaɪrəl
antiviral
ˌæntɪˈvaɪrəl
arboviral
ˈɑːbəʊˌvaɪrəl
Cyril
ˈsɪrəl
enteroviral
ˌɛntərəʊˈvaɪrəl
gyral
ˈdʒaɪrəl
hydrargyral
haɪˈdrɑːdʒɪrəl
papyral
pəˈpaɪrəl
squirrel
ˈskwɪrəl
subviral
sʌbˈvaɪrəl
viral
ˈvaɪrəl
Wirral
ˈwɪrəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHIRAL

chiragra
chiragric
chiragrical
chirality
Chirico
chirk
chirl
chirm
chiro
chirognomist
chirognomy
chirograph
chirographer
chirographic
chirographical
chirographist
chirography
chirologist
chirology
chiromancer

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHIRAL

adenoviral
admiral
Archimedes spiral
barred spiral
decemviral
duumviral
fleet admiral
inflationary spiral
leptospiral
logarithmic spiral
nonviral
proviral
rear admiral
red admiral
retiral
retroviral
spiral
vice admiral
wage-price spiral
white admiral

Synonyms and antonyms of chiral in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «chiral» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHIRAL

Find out the translation of chiral to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of chiral from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chiral» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

手性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quiral
570 millions of speakers

English

chiral
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

chiral
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مراوان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хиральный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quiral
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চিরল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chiral
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kiral
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

chiralen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キラル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

키랄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Chiral
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiral
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கைரல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Chiral
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kiral
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

chirale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chiralne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хіральний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

chiral
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χειρόμορφα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

chirale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kiral
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kiralt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of chiral

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHIRAL»

The term «chiral» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.346 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHIRAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about chiral

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHIRAL»

Discover the use of chiral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chiral and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Chiral Analysis
Chiral Analysis covers an important area of analytical chemistry of relevance to a wide variety of scientific professionals.
Kenneth W. Busch, Marianna A. Busch, 2011
2
Chiral Chromatography
Chiral Chromatography Contents An Introduction to Chiral Chromatography Mechanism of Solute Retention Molecular Interactions The Basic Gas Chromatograph Gas Chromatography Chiral Stationary Phases and Columns Chiral Gas Chromatography ...
Thomas E. Beesley, Raymond P. W. Scott, 1998
3
Chiral Photochemistry
Chiral Photochemistry is the first book devoted solely to this rapidly growing area.
Yoshihisa Inoue, V. Ramamurthy, 2004
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Capillary Electrophoresis in Chiral Analysis
This book bridges the gap. Capillary Electrophoresis in Chiral Analysis charts the evolution of chiral capillary electrophoresis and describes new types of chiral selectors and mechanistic aspects of chiral recognition.
Bezhan Chankvetadze, 1997
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Handbook of Chiral Chemicals, Second Edition
"The Handbook of Chiral Chemicals, Second Edition" is a guide to advances in the field that result in more efficient and cost-effective synthesis of chiral chemicals.
David Ager, 2005
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Chiral Separations: Methods and Protocols
Prominent experts from around the world detail the chromatographic and electroseparation techniques they have developed for chiral separations on an analytical scale.
Gerald Gübitz, Martin G. Schmid, 2004
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Dynamic Stereochemistry of Chiral Compounds: Principles and ...
In this book the reader is presented with a comprehensive overview of fundamental concepts of asymmetric synthesis along with in-depth discussion of strategies for the synthesis and stereoselective interconversion of compounds exhibiting ...
Christian Wolf, 2008
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A Primer for Chiral Perturbation Theory
This book offers an introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory.
Stefan Scherer, Matthias R. Schindler, 2011
9
Chiral Algebras
"The book will be of interest to researchers working in algebraic geometry and its applications to mathematical physics and representation theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Alexander Beilinson, V. G. Drinfeld, 2004
10
Chiral Environmental Pollutants: Trace Analysis and ...
In 1848, Louis Pasteur [1] was the first to report the separation of two different types of sodium ammonium tartrate, which he assumed to be related to each other like two mirror images.
R. Kallenborn, H. Hühnerfuss, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHIRAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term chiral is used in the context of the following news items.
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Founder.org awards Purdue startup $100K
The company uses a patented chiral carbon catalog synthetic platform to produce drugs on a larger scale. Avoiding expensive purification ... «Journal and Courier, Jul 15»
2
Evidence for stable room-temperature skyrmions
These skyrmions were both stable and chiral—meaning that they spun in a set direction—so that they could be manipulated to encode ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
3
Research report explores China repaglinide market for 2010-2019
As the first new prandial glucose regulator, repaglinide belongs to the class of benzoic acid derivative. Containing a chiral carbon atom, it has ... «WhaTech, Jul 15»
4
Copper catalysis overcomes double bond trouble
They made a wide variety of chiral amines with trans-but-2-ene in yields over 50% while retaining high ees, and showed many unactivated ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, Jul 15»
5
Spintronics: Skyrmions under strain
A regular lattice of skyrmions was first discovered in the cubic chiral magnet MnSi (ref. 1), whose crystal structure without inversion symmetry ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Nanoswimmers: Designed for speed
Most artificial micro- and nanoswimmers are designed to mimic natural flagella and are composed of a spherical head attached to a chiral helix, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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SPIE Gold Medal winner explores world of waves
Chiral structures have handedness, like how your right and your left hand are different from one another,” Engheta explained in a 2012 ... «SPIE Newsroom, Jul 15»
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Small molecule chromatography demand driving expansion, says …
"There is an increasing trend that small molecule therapies are becoming more complex, often chiral in nature,” Business Development Director ... «OutSourcing-Pharma.com, Jul 15»
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ALCC Awards 24 Projects 1.7 Billion Core Hours at ALCF
... Lattice QCD with Chiral Fermions.” Gerbrand Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received 70 million core-hours for “Revealing the ... «HPCwire, Jul 15»
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Tiny Robots Can Clear Clogged Arteries
As a result, the scientists had to use asymmetric (or chiral) structures for the micro-swimmers. “We can create single-bead and two-bead micro-swimmers, but ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»

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