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Definition: laevorotation
Levorotation
\Le`vo*ro*ta"tion\, n. [Written also
l[ae]vorotation.] [Levo- + rotation.] (Physics & Chem.)
Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw;
counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning
of the plane of polarization of light.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]