sinistral in English

adjective
1
of or on the left side or the left hand (the opposite of dextral ) , in particular.
Nevertheless, sinistral and dextral Pb elements are virtually mirror images, that is, they are more alike than the corresponding elements in L. variabilis.

Use "sinistral" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "sinistral" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "sinistral", or refer to the context using the word "sinistral" in the English Dictionary.

1. In wall rocks and plutonic rocks kinematic indicators imply sinistral displacement; in the wall rocks adjacent to the intrusive complex, strike shear was combined with normal displacement.

2. The Junggar, Turfan and Alakol basins in northwestern China and Kazakhstan formed as Late Permian to ?Early Triassic extensional structures in a broad sinistral shear zone between large strike-slip faults that separate two main domains of the Altaid orogenic collage

3. A detailed structural analysis of an Anastomosing shear zone network in metagabbros from the Archean Rainy Lake zone (Canada) revealed the existence of prevalent dextral and minor sinistral conjugate shear zones with the obtuse angle (>130°) facing the main shortening direction.

4. Antisymmetry refers to the condition where right-sided and left-sided—or dextral and sinistral—forms are equally common within a species, as seen in the major claws of lobsters and male fiddler crabs, the side to which the upper mandible crosses in most crossbill finches, or the spiral orientation of palm-tree trunks.