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anticlinal

[an-ti-klahyn-l]
adjective
  1. inclining in opposite directions from a central axis.
  2. Geology.
    1. inclining downward on both sides from a median line or axis, as a fold of rock strata.
    2. pertaining to such a fold.
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Origin of anticlinal

1825–35; < Greek antiklī́n(ein) to lean against each other (anti- anti- + klī́nein to lean1) + -al1
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Historical Examples

  • Anticlinal, an-ti-klīn′al, adj. sloping in opposite directions.

    Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

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  • Data are insufficient, however, to indicate the extent to which the anticlinal areas are really areas of maximum shearing.

  • The crest of the Ochils coincides, therefore, more or less closely, with an anticlinal arch or fold of the strata.

  • If an anticlinal arch be a weak structure, a synclinal arrangement of strata is quite the opposite.

  • Synclinal strata therefore endure, while anticlinal strata are worn more readily away.

British Dictionary definitions for anticlinal

anticlinal

adjective
  1. of, relating to, or resembling an anticline
  2. botany of or relating to the plane at right angles to the surface of an organ
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anticlinal in Medicine

anticlinal

(ăn′tē-klī′nəl, ăn′tī-)
adj.
  1. Inclined in opposite directions, as two sides of a pyramid.
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