英和和英

別の表記

• righthanded

語源

From 中期英語 riȝt honded, equivalent to right +‎ handed.

発音

• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ɹaɪtˈhændɪd/

形容詞

right-handed (comparative more right-handed, superlative most right-handed)

1. Using one's right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's left.

   Coordinate terms: left-handed, ambidextrous

2. (not comparable) Intended to be worn on, or used by, the right hand.
3. (not comparable) Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
4. (physics) Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.
5. Of a coordinate system: following the right-hand rule.

名詞

right-handed pl (plural only)

1. Right-handed people, taken as a whole.
   • 1992, Antonio E. Puente, Robert J. McCaffrey, Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment, →ISBN, page 147:

     Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.

反意語

• left-handed
• lefthanded

派生語

参考

• chirality