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Gauche

Gauche may refer to:Literal left-hand-referenced relative direction: A style of Western fencing using the main-gauche, i.e. the parrying dagger, normally held in the left hand Rive Gauche, on the southern bank of the Seine in Paris, France Stereochemistry: Gauche conformation, a torsion angle of ±60° in alkane stereochemistry Gauche effect, a characterization in which the gauche rotamer is more stable than the anti rotamer Gauche, an implementation of the Scheme programming language "Gauche the Cellist", short story by Kenji Miyazawa about the eponymous hypothetical cellist Laura Gauché, French alpine ski racer

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Gauche may refer to:

  • Literal left-hand-referenced relative direction:
    • A style of Western fencing using the main-gauche, i.e. the parrying dagger, normally held in the left hand
    • Rive Gauche, on the southern (i.e., left, when facing down the direction of flow) bank of the Seine in Paris, France
  • Stereochemistry:
    • Gauche conformation, a torsion angle of ±60° in alkane stereochemistry
    • Gauche effect, a characterization in which the gauche rotamer is more stable than the anti rotamer
  • Gauche (Scheme implementation), an implementation of the Scheme programming language
  • "Gauche the Cellist", short story by Kenji Miyazawa about the eponymous hypothetical cellist
  • Laura Gauché (born 1995), French alpine ski racer
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