right-handed screw convention

noun

: a convention in mathematics: if linear motion is produced perpendicular to a plane by a rotation in the plane in a given direction, the direction of the linear motion will be that of the usual motion along its axis of a right-handed screw with axis perpendicular to the plane and with the given direction of rotation in a resisting medium

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