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单词 sinistral
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Definition of sinistral in English:

sinistral

adjective ˈsɪnɪstr(ə)lˈsɪnəstrəl
  • 1Of or on the left side or the left hand.

    The opposite of dextral
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nevertheless, sinistral and dextral Pb elements are virtually mirror images, that is, they are more alike than the corresponding elements in L. variabilis.
    Synonyms
    left-hand, at nine o'clock
    1. 1.1 Left-handed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although sinistral individuals are known in many normally dextral species, left-handedness as a characteristic of species is rare in most gastropod clades.
    2. 1.2Geology Relating to or denoting a strike-slip fault in which the motion of the block on the opposite side of the fault from an observer is towards the left.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This paper tentatively identifies two lineaments and a fault that may relate to sinistral strike-slip faulting in the pre-Paradox Formation basement beneath Upheaval Dome.
      • Deposition of the unconformably overlying Red Bay Group was terminated in latest Lochkovian times by renewed sinistral strike-slip faulting.
      • Although data on vertical displacement on the Klima fault zone are limited, the horizontal component is clearly much larger, and the Klima fault zone represents a sinistral strike-slip fault.
      • The temporal distribution of first appearances of sinistral clades as documented by fossils generally differs from that of clades with a labral tooth.
      • In conclusion, the geological characteristics of the South China Sea cannot be explained by a pull-apart model involving a releasing bend of a sinistral strike-slip fault.
    3. 1.3Zoology (of a spiral mollusc shell) with whorls rising to the left and coiling in a clockwise direction.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This protoconch is discoidal or almost dicoidal and sinistral.
      • If the umbilicate side is directed downward and the flat side upward, this gives the impression the shell is sinistral or a left-handed spiral, because the aperture when held toward the observer is on the left.
      • These gastropods have slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shells bearing a sinistral protoconch and were united by Knight in the family Streptacididae.
      • The unusual change in shell coiling from dextral to sinistral during their ontogeny represents a character which makes their recognition in the fossil record easy.
      • The latter species has a smooth, valvatiform, dextrally coiled teleoconch and a sinistral, anastrophic (coaxial heterostrophic) protoconch.
nounˈsɪnɪstr(ə)l
  • A left-handed person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Left-handed children, or sinistrals, often have a difficult time in a world geared overwhelmingly to the right-handed.

Derivatives

  • sinistrality

  • noun sɪnɪsˈtralɪti
    • What I mean to suggest here is that sinistrality was encoded as a sign of self-portraiture itself.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Such selection is inimical to the evolution of traits like sinistrality that, at least in their early stages of development, are accompanied by mildly deleterious side effects.
      • There is no trend from dextrality to sinistrality, but rather large clades characterized by one form or the other, sometimes with large-ish subclades of the complementary type.
      • Further evidence that species-level sinistrality originated in environments where predator-induced selection is weak comes from the biology of living left-handed species.
      • Handedness is known to affect patterns of mating in gastropods, making it likely that the establishment of sinistrality in dextral lineages is associated with sexual selection.
  • sinistrally

  • adverb
    • He matched two apparently similar granite intrusions on either side of the fault and argued that they had been displaced sinistrally about 100 km.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The sinistrally transtensional Louisburgh Basin contains PrIdolI fluviatile sediments and, probably, dates the end of transpressional deformation.
      • The outer shell surface of both sinistrally coiled species of Crassimarginata is ornamented by distinct costae, but the dextrally coiled shells of Yukonoconcha seem to be smooth.
      • The sinistrally transpressive nature of the Baltica-Laurentia collision deduced by Soper et al. is confirmed.
      • Both species described here are sinistrally coiled, but a similar pattern of ornamentation is present on two Pennsylvanian species that are dextrally coiled.
 
 

Definition of sinistral in US English:

sinistral

adjectiveˈsinəstrəlˈsɪnəstrəl
  • 1Of or on the left side or the left hand.

    The opposite of dextral
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nevertheless, sinistral and dextral Pb elements are virtually mirror images, that is, they are more alike than the corresponding elements in L. variabilis.
    Synonyms
    left-hand, at nine o'clock
    1. 1.1 Left-handed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although sinistral individuals are known in many normally dextral species, left-handedness as a characteristic of species is rare in most gastropod clades.
    2. 1.2Geology Relating to or denoting a strike-slip fault in which the motion of the block on the opposite side of the fault from an observer is toward the left.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In conclusion, the geological characteristics of the South China Sea cannot be explained by a pull-apart model involving a releasing bend of a sinistral strike-slip fault.
      • The temporal distribution of first appearances of sinistral clades as documented by fossils generally differs from that of clades with a labral tooth.
      • Although data on vertical displacement on the Klima fault zone are limited, the horizontal component is clearly much larger, and the Klima fault zone represents a sinistral strike-slip fault.
      • Deposition of the unconformably overlying Red Bay Group was terminated in latest Lochkovian times by renewed sinistral strike-slip faulting.
      • This paper tentatively identifies two lineaments and a fault that may relate to sinistral strike-slip faulting in the pre-Paradox Formation basement beneath Upheaval Dome.
    3. 1.3Zoology (of a spiral mollusk shell) with whorls rising to the left and coiling in a clockwise direction.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The unusual change in shell coiling from dextral to sinistral during their ontogeny represents a character which makes their recognition in the fossil record easy.
      • The latter species has a smooth, valvatiform, dextrally coiled teleoconch and a sinistral, anastrophic (coaxial heterostrophic) protoconch.
      • These gastropods have slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shells bearing a sinistral protoconch and were united by Knight in the family Streptacididae.
      • If the umbilicate side is directed downward and the flat side upward, this gives the impression the shell is sinistral or a left-handed spiral, because the aperture when held toward the observer is on the left.
      • This protoconch is discoidal or almost dicoidal and sinistral.
 
 
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