Usually means: Rotation of plane-polarized light left.
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  1. levorotation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. levorotation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. levorotation: Vocabulary.com
  4. levorotation: Wordnik
  5. levorotation: Wiktionary
  6. levorotation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. levorotation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. levorotation: Dictionary.com
  9. levorotation: Rhymezone
  10. levorotation: FreeDictionary.org
  11. levorotation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. levorotation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. levorotation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. levorotation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. levorotation: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (levorotation)

▸ noun:  Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.

Similar:
laevorotation, dextrorotation, cyclorotation, libration, gyrorotation, gyration, clino-rotation, roll, cyclotorsion, rotation, more...

Opposite:
dextrorotation, clockwise rotation

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Similar:
laevorotation, dextrorotation, cyclorotation, libration, gyrorotation, gyration, clino-rotation, roll, cyclotorsion, rotation, more...

Opposite:
dextrorotation, clockwise rotation



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