amphicheiral

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amphicheiral (not comparable)

  1. Equivalent to its mirror image.
    • 1878, James Clerk Maxwell, A Paradoxical Ode to Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.D., sourced from G. C., “The Life of Clerk Maxwell”, Nature, no. 680, vol. 27, 9 November 1882, pp. 26-28:
      My soul's an amphicheiral knot
      Upon a liquid vortex wrought
      By Intellect, in the Unseen residing.
      And thine dost like a convict sit
      With marlinspike untwisting it
      Only to find its knottiness abiding;
      Since all the tools for its untying
      In four dimensioned space are lying,
      Wherein thy fancy intersperses
      Long avenues of universes,
      While Klein and Clifford fill the void
      With one finite unbounded homaloid,
      And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.