levogyre

  1. Noun.  (organic compounds, medicine) An organic molecule that has the property to divert the plane of polarization of light to the left of the direction an observer sees the light.
  2. Noun.  (rfv-sense) (astronomy) The structure of the Universe proposed by ancient Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus. A series of nested crystalline spheres which contains fixed stars and moving planets which rotate around an immovable Earth with each sphere connected a randomly distributed series by gimbal-like axes.
  3. Noun.  (rfv-sense) (arts) A series of nested shells connected by gimbals as shown in the 1974 Paul Laffoley painting.

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