dextral
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If the opposing block moves right, it is dextral motion.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
An example of a dextral, right-lateral strike-slip fault is the San Andreas Fault, which denotes a transform boundary between the North American and Pacific plates.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Given that handedness is apparent early in life and the vast majority of people are right-handed, we are almost certainly dextral by nature.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2013
Occasionally the dextral circuit is followed in cases in which it is evidently less convenient than the sinistral would be, as in dealing cards in all ordinary games.
From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson) Bergen
Shell bulimoid, dextral or sinistral; radular teeth, expanded at their extremities and multicuspidate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
