Gauche may refer to: * Literal left-hand-referenced

relative direction In geometry, direction, also known as spatial direction or vector direction, is the common characteristic of all ray (geometry), rays which coincide when translation (geometry), translated to share a common endpoint; equivalently, it is the commo ...

: ** A style of Western fencing using the main-gauche, i.e. the parrying dagger, normally held in the left hand **

Rive Gauche The Rive Gauche (; Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two parts. When facing downstream, the southern bank is to the left, whereas the northern bank (or Rive Dr ...

, on the southern (i.e., left, when facing down the direction of flow) bank of the Seine in Paris, France * Stereochemistry: **

Gauche conformation In chemistry, rotamers are chemical species that differ from one another primarily due to rotations about one or more single bonds. Various arrangements of atoms in a molecule that differ by rotation about single bonds can also be referred to as ...

, a torsion angle of ±60° in alkane stereochemistry **

Gauche effect In the study of conformational isomerism, the gauche effect is an atypical situation where a gauche conformation (groups separated by a torsion angle of approximately 60°) is more stable than the anti conformation (180°).''Contribution to the S ...

, 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 is a short story by the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa. It is about Gauche, a struggling small-town cellist who is inspired by his interactions with anthropomorphized animals to gain insight into music. The story has been translated into English, ...

", short story by Kenji Miyazawa about the eponymous hypothetical cellist *

Laura Gauché Laura Gauché (born 4 March 1995 in Moûtiers) is a French FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of Downhill (ski competition), downhill and super-G. She made her World Cup debut ...

(born 1995), French alpine ski racer

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