Usually means: Molecules with non-superimposable mirror images.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word chiral:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. chiral: Merriam-Webster
  2. chiral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chiral: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Chiral, chiral: Wordnik
  5. chiral: Wiktionary
  6. chiral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. chiral: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. chiral: Dictionary.com
  9. Chiral (chemistry), Chiral (video game), Chiral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. chiral: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. chiral: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chiral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. chiral: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. General Glossary (No longer online)
  4. chiral: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Chiral: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See chirality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chiral)

adjective:  (geometry, physical chemistry) that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.

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