Associations to the word «Anticlinal»
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Wiktionary
ANTICLINAL, adjective. Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
ANTICLINAL, adjective. (botany) Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
ANTICLINAL, adjective. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°
ANTICLINAL, adjective. (geology) Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
ANTICLINAL VERTEBRA, noun. (anatomy) The vertebra in a vertebral column which has a spinous process (spine) towards which the spines of all the other vertebrae are inclined; the vertebra at which the spine orientation changes.
Dictionary definition
ANTICLINAL, adjective. Sloping downward away from a common crest.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.