anticlinal

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12
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10

Definition of anticlinal

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
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adj

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

noun

  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, […]”

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Etymology

From anticline + -al.

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