unidextrous

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adjective

monodextrous.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectiveunidextrous (comparative more unidextrous, superlative most unidextrous)

comparative more unidextrous · superlative most unidextrous

  1. monodextrous.

    […]children on the average are unidextrous, with the right hand superior at the time they enter school, and that the unidexterity increases during the early years of adolescence.

    1902, Child study in Chicago, page 1108
  2. string theoryDisplaying a restricted form of supersymmetry that is one-sided, allowing only one type of transformation.
    2 more examples

    Using the fact that every worldsheet may be ruled by two copies of worldlines, a restricted version of Weyl's construction of representations of algebras is used to extend the recent classification of off-shell supermultiplets of iV-extended worldline supersymmetry to usual off-shell and also unidextrous (on-the-half-shell) supermultiplets of worldsheet (p, g)-supersymmetry with no central extension.

    2011, Weaving Worldsheet Supermultiplets from the Worldlines Within, page 1

    Owing to the "bow-ties theorems" of Ref. [54], it is clear that this valise (3.22) by itself cannot extend even to worldsheet supersymmetry (other than the trivial extension cases of unidextrous (4,0)- and (0,4)-supersymmetry), and therefore certainly does not extend to supersymmetry in any higher-dimensional spacetime.

    2012, The Real Anatomy of Complex Linear Superfields, page 13

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

From uni- + Latin dexter (“right", "skillful”) + -ous.

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