dextral
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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
If the opposing block moves right, it is dextral motion.
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
Shell thin, dextral, with prominent spire and oval aperture; no inferior pallial lobe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Right′-hand′ed, using the right-hand more easily than the left: dextral: clockwise.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
