anticlinal

English

Etymology

From anticline +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəl

Adjective

anticlinal (comparative more anticlinal, superlative most anticlinal)

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

Hypernyms

• (geology): antiformal

Coordinate terms

• (geology): homoclinal, monoclinal, synclinal

Derived terms

• anticlinally
• anticlinal vertebra
• geanticlinal

Translations

inclining or dipping in opposite directions

Portuguese: anticlinal Spanish: anticlinal (es)

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Irish: (please verify) antachlaonasach

botany

chemistry

geology

Polish: antyklinalny Russian: антиклина́льный (ru) (antiklinálʹnyj)

Noun

anticlinal (plural anticlinals)

1. (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, […]

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

anticlinal (feminine anticlinale, masculine plural anticlinaux, feminine plural anticlinales)

1. anticlinal

Noun

anticlinal m (plural anticlinaux)

1. anticline

Further reading

• “anticlinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

From anti- +‎ clinal.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.kliˈnaw/ [ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.kliˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.ti.kliˈnal/ [ˌɐ̃.ti.kliˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.ti.kliˈnal/ [ˌɐ̃.ti.kliˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.ti.kliˈna.li/

Noun

anticlinal m or f (plural anticlinais)

1. (geology) anticline (anticlinal fold)

Adjective

anticlinal m or f (plural anticlinais)

1. anticlinal (inclining or dipping in opposite directions)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anticlinal.

Noun

anticlinal n (plural anticlinale)

1. anticline

Declension

Declension of anticlinal

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anticlinal	anticlinalul		anticlinale	anticlinalele
genitive-dative	anticlinal	anticlinalului		anticlinale	anticlinalelor
vocative	anticlinalule			anticlinalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /antikliˈnal/ [ãn̪.t̪i.kliˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: an‧ti‧cli‧nal

Adjective

anticlinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anticlinales)

1. anticlinal

Further reading

• “anticlinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024