Anticlinal

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An anticlinal fold.

    "But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
  2. 2
    Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
  3. 3
    Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°. physical
  4. 4
    Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
Adjective
  1. 1
    sloping downward away from a common crest wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
homoclinal

Example

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"But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]"

Etymology

From anticline + -al.

Related phrases

anticlinal vertebracell divisiontorsion angle

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