Dexter

Dexter is a Latin adjective meaning "on the right hand side, skillful, fortunate, favorable, proper, fitting".

Dexter may also refer to:

• Dexter in dexter and sinister, a heraldry term referring to the right of the bearer of the arms, and to the left by the viewer's vision
• Dexter cattle, a breed of cattle
• Dexter School, a private boys' school in Brookline, Massachusetts
• Dexter-Russell, the largest U.S. manufacturer of professional cutlery
• Dexter (robot), a dynamically balancing bipedal humanoid robot research project by Anybots
• Dexter (Pokédex), the name of the Pokédex in Kanto and Johto in the Pokémon anime

Places

United States

• Dexter, Georgia
• Dexter, Iowa
• Dexter, Kansas
• Dexter, Kentucky
• Dexter, Maine
• Dexter, Michigan
• Dexter, Minnesota
• Dexter, Missouri
• Dexter, New Mexico
• Dexter, New York
• Dexter City, Ohio
• Dexter, Oregon
• Dexter, Wisconsin, a town
• Dexter (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Dexter Township, Michigan
• Dexter Township, Minnesota

Canada

• Dexter, Ontario, Canada

Ships

• USRC Dexter, the name of more than one ship of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
• USCGC Dexter, the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast Guard

Other uses

• Dexter (name)
• Dexter's Laboratory, an American animated series that aired from 1996 to 2003
• Dexter (TV series) (2006–2013), an American television drama series
  • "Dexter" (episode), the pilot and first episode
• Dexter (malware)
• Dexterville (disambiguation)

See also

• Dextral, a scientific term
• Dextre, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, a component of the International Space Station
• Dextrous (disambiguation)
• Dexterity
• Dextrose