chiral en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- kī'rəl
- /ˈkaɪɹəl/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English chiral From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + English -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, physical) that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv:
Deriveds
nonchiral · chiralon · pseudochiral · hexachiral · magnetochiral · prochiral · intrachiral · chiralized · chiral resolution · monochiral · semichiral · achiral · equichiral · chirally · heterochiral · cryptochiral · interchiral · chiral center · unichiral · chiral centre · homochiral · superchiral · amphichiral
Synonyms
Translations (15)
it chirale (that exhibits chirality) · ca quiral (that exhibits chirality) · cs chirální (that exhibits chirality) · es quiral (that exhibits chirality) · pt quiral (that exhibits chirality) · eo ĥirala (that exhibits chirality) · id kiral (that exhibits chirality) · pl chiralny (that exhibits chirality) · el χειραλικός (that exhibits chirality) · fi kiraalinen (that exhibits chirality) · tr kiral (that exhibits chirality) · cmn 手性 (that exhibits chirality) · fr chiral (that exhibits chirality) · tr aynal (that exhibits chirality) · de chiral (that exhibits chirality)