Usually means: Molecular asymmetry, non-superimposable mirror images.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word chirality:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. chirality: Merriam-Webster
  2. chirality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chirality: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chirality: Wordnik
  5. chirality: Wiktionary
  6. chirality: Dictionary.com
  7. Chirality (chemistry), Chirality (disambiguation), Chirality (electromagnetism), Chirality (manga), Chirality (mathematics), Chirality (physics), Chirality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. chirality: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  9. chirality: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chirality (chemistry), Chirality (mathematics), chirality: Encyclopedia

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

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chirality: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Chirality: Extragalactic Astronomy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chirality)

noun:  The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.

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