anticlastic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + κλαστός (klastós, “broken in pieces”) + -ic.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æstɪk
Adjective
anticlastic
- (of a surface) curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped
- (mathematics) of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is negative at all points
Antonyms
- synclastic
Translations
curved in opposite ways in two directions
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Anagrams
- Cisatlantic, cis-Atlantic, cisatlantic