Usually means: Relating to spatial arrangement, hindrance.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word sterically:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterically: Merriam-Webster
  2. sterically: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sterically: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sterically: Wiktionary
  5. sterically: Dictionary.com
  6. sterically: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterically: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sterically: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sterically)

▸ adverb:  In a steric manner

Similar:
orthosterically, stereoisomerically, stearically, stereochemically, diastereomerically, nonstereospecifically, stereoselectively, allosterically, stigmergically, stereoelectronically, more...

Opposite:
non-sterically, planarly, flatly

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Similar:
orthosterically, stereoisomerically, stearically, stereochemically, diastereomerically, nonstereospecifically, stereoselectively, allosterically, stigmergically, stereoelectronically, more...

Opposite:
non-sterically, planarly, flatly



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