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Meaning of "enantiomorphous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENANTIOMORPHOUS

enantiomorphous  [ɛnˌæntɪəˈmɔːfəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENANTIOMORPHOUS

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

WHAT DOES ENANTIOMORPHOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Chirality (mathematics)

In geometry, a figure is chiral if it is not identical to its mirror image, or, more precisely, if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. For example, a right shoe is different from a left shoe, and clockwise is different from counterclockwise. A chiral object and its mirror image are said to be enantiomorphs. The word chirality is derived from the Greek χείρ, the hand, the most familiar chiral object; the word enantiomorph stems from the Greek ἐναντίος 'opposite' + μορφή 'form'. A non-chiral figure is called achiral or amphichiral. The helix and Möbius strip are chiral two-dimensional objects in three-dimensional ambient space. The J, L, S and Z-shaped tetrominoes of the popular video game Tetris also exhibit chirality, but only in a two-dimensional space. Many other familiar objects exhibit the same chiral symmetry of the human body, such as gloves and shoes. A similar notion of chirality is considered in knot theory, as explained below. Some chiral three-dimensional objects, such as the helix, can be assigned a right or left handedness, according to the right-hand rule.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENANTIOMORPHOUS


actinomorphous
ˌæktɪnəʊˈmɔːfəs
amorphous
əˈmɔːfəs
anthropomorphous
ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfəs
dimorphous
daɪˈmɔːfəs
gynandromorphous
dʒɪˌnændrəʊˈmɔːfəs
homeomorphous
ˌhɒmɪəˈmɔːfəs
homoeomorphous
ˌhɒmɪəˈmɔːfəs
isodimorphous
ˌaɪsəʊdaɪˈmɔːfəs
isomorphous
ˌaɪsəʊˈmɔːfəs
lagomorphous
ˌlæɡəʊˈmɔːfəs
metamorphous
ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəs
ophiomorphous
ˌɒfɪəˈmɔːfəs
paramorphous
ˌpærəˈmɔːfəs
perimorphous
ˌpɛrɪˈmɔːfəs
pleomorphous
ˌpliːəˈmɔːfəs
polymorphous
ˌpɒlɪˈmɔːfəs
rhizomorphous
ˌraɪzəʊˈmɔːfəs
tauromorphous
ˌtɔːrəˈmɔːfəs
theriomorphous
ˌθɪərɪəʊˈmɔːfəs
trimorphous
traɪˈmɔːfəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENANTIOMORPHOUS

enamored
enamour
enamoured
enantiodromia
enantiodromic
enantiomer
enantiomeric
enantiomorph
enantiomorphic
enantiomorphism
enantiomorphy
enantiopathy
enantiosis
enantiostylous
enantiostyly
enantiotropic
enantiotropy
enarm
enarration
enarthrodial

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENANTIOMORPHOUS

anamorphous
aphthous
diadelphous
didelphous
heteromorphous
homomorphous
hypertrophous
mesomorphous
monadelphous
monodelphous
ornithodelphous
pentadelphous
polyadelphous
Pseudepigraphous
pseudomorphous
saurognathous
triadelphous
typhous
xanthous
zygomorphous

Synonyms and antonyms of enantiomorphous in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translator English - Chinese

对映
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enantiomorfos
570 millions of speakers

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enantiomorphous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रतिबिम्बरुपी
380 millions of speakers
ar

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enantiomorphous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

энантиоморфными
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enantiomorphous
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Translator English - Bengali

enantiomorphous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

énantiomorphe
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Translator English - Malay

Enantiomorphous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

enantiomorphe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

enantiomorphous
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Translator English - Korean

enantiomorphous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enantiomorphous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

enantiomorphous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

enantiomorphous
75 millions of speakers

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एन्टीऑमोराफस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

enantiomorphous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

enantiomorfe
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

enancjomroficznych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

енантіоморфних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

enantiomorphous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

enantiomorphous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

enantiomorphous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

enantiomorphous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enantiomorphous
5 millions of speakers

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENANTIOMORPHOUS»

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Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life: Caught in the Act of ...
currently assumes that enantiomorphous forms of d-(+)-quartz and l-(−)-quartz are equally distributed on Earth. Despite such discussions, chiral quartz crystals themselves are inert and not cata- lytically active, and therefore are unlikely to have ...
Uwe Meierhenrich, 2008
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Introduction to Stereochemistry
... specified and a dissymmetric standard — a handle, as it were — of defined chirality. This point is illustrated in the manual separation of enantiomorphous crystal.';, i.e., crystals with mirror-image habits. Figure 2-1 shows the enantiomorphous ...
Kurt Mislow, 2012
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The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Selected essays
possess enantiomorphous molecular configurations - similar to those assigned to the two lactic acids - because they exhibit properties of an enantiomorphous character. A very beautiful experiment which the late Sir G. Gabriel Stokes devised ...
David M. Knight, 1998
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The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction
... symmetries Non-centrosymmetric point groups Centrosymmetric point groups( a) System Bravais lattices Axial lengths and angles Characteristic (minimum) symmetry Enantiomorphous(b) Non-enantiomorphous(c) Non-enantiomorphous( c) ...
Christopher Hammond, 2009
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Fundamentals of Crystals: Fundamentals of Crystals. ...
To indicate that objects belong to the right or left enantiomorphous variety, one can also use the term "chirality" (from the Greek Pup, arm). Enantiomorphous forms of molecules and crystals are widespread (Fig. 2.32). Let us now consider any ...
Boris K. Vainshtein, 1994
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Topics in Stereochemistry
It is possible to convert one enantiomorphous arrangement to the other by reorienting the molecule through application of a reverse electric field along the unique axis b. Fletcher, Keve, and Skapski (110) have shown that the reversible electric ...
Ernest L. Eliel, Samuel H. Wilen, Norman L. Allinger, 2009
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Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Enantiomer- ically pure formamide molecules are found to form enantiomorphous domains."41 Similarly, chiral terephthal- ic acid derivatives"5' and their polymorphs"61 have been found to form enantiomorphous self-assembled monolay- ers.
James A. Schwarz, Cristian I. Contescu, Karol Putyera, 2004
8
Preparative Enantioselective Chromatography
Geoffrey B. Cox. crystallize as conglomerates, in which two enantiomorphous crystals are present, each containing only one of the component enantiomers [26] . Consequently, analysis of any single crystal of a conglomerate shows a very high ...
Geoffrey B. Cox, 2008
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On Chirality and the Universal Asymmetry: Reflections on ...
One finds that, for electronic reasons, there then exist two energy minima corresponding to enantiomorphous chiral structures. An achiral lattice of higher symmetry would in these cases be unstable (Sect. 7.1). But then, evidently, the existence ...
Georges H. Wagnière, 2008
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Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry
In the "wheel" structure with Batman (Figure 28,c) three enantiomorphous systems (two of them of the same sign) are seen; they correspond to the central part of the "sun" mosaic (Figure 28,a). It is of interest that the overall pentagonal ...
Jiri Patera, 1998

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