chiral
pronunciation
How to pronounce chiral in British English:
UK ['tʃɪrəl]
How to pronounce chiral in American English:
US ['tʃɪrəl]
Word Origin
- chiral (adj.)
- 1894, a hybrid coined by Lord Kelvin from Latinized comb. form of Greek kheir "hand" (from PIE *ghes- "hand;" see chiro-) + -al (1).
Example
- 1. Again , the chiral pattern emerged from the simulation .
- 2. The resulting lattice was indeed a chiral pattern of scalene triangles .
- 3. The patterns are chiral and are mirror images ( plus a rotation ) of each other .
- 4. Early earth seems to have been covered in a soup of organic molecules with no chiral preference .
- 5. The team began with what it describes as the simplest form of chiral lattice in 2d .