anticlinal
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪnəl
Adjective
anticlinal (comparative more anticlinal, superlative most anticlinal)
- Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
- (botany) Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
- (physical chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°
- (geology) Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
Hypernyms
- (geology): antiformal
Coordinate terms
- (geology): homoclinal, monoclinal, synclinal
Derived terms
Translations
inclining or dipping in opposite directions
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Noun
anticlinal (plural anticlinals)
- (geology) An anticlinal fold.
- 1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195:
- 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, […]
Pronunciation
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Adjective
anticlinal (feminine anticlinale, masculine plural anticlinaux, feminine plural anticlinales)
Noun
anticlinal m (plural anticlinaux)
Further reading
- “anticlinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
anticlinal m or f (plural anticlinais)
Adjective
anticlinal m or f (plural anticlinais)
- anticlinal (inclining or dipping in opposite directions)
Etymology
Borrowed from French anticlinal.
Noun
anticlinal n (plural anticlinale)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) anticlinal | anticlinalul | (niște) anticlinale | anticlinalele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) anticlinal | anticlinalului | (unor) anticlinale | anticlinalelor |
| vocative | anticlinalule | anticlinalelor | ||
Declension of anticlinal
Pronunciation
Adjective
anticlinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anticlinales)
Further reading
- “anticlinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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