| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | en·an·ti·o·morph |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -n n t - -môrf |
| NOUN: | Either of a pair of crystals, molecules, or compounds that are mirror images of each other but are not identical, and that rotate the plane of polarized light equally, but in opposite directions. Also called enantiomer, optical isomer. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek enantios, opposite; see ant- in Appendix I + –morph. | | OTHER FORMS: | en·anti·o·morphic, en·anti·o·morphous —ADJECTIVE
en·anti·o·morphism —NOUN
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