synclinal

English

Etymology

From syn- +‎ -clinal.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəl

Adjective

synclinal (comparative more synclinal, superlative most synclinal)

1. (chemistry) Having or relating to a torsion angle between 30° and 90°
2. Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 75:

     The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.

3. (geology) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.

   a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “geology”): anticlinal

Translations

formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane

Czech: synklinální Finnish: synkliininen French: synclinal (fr) German: please add this translation if you can Hindi: अभिनतीय f (abhinatīya) Polish: synklinalny (pl) Portuguese: sinclinal

Noun

synclinal (plural synclinals)

1. (geology) A synclinal 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, […]

Translations

synclinal fold

Basque: sinklinal Belarusian: сінкліналь (sinklinalʹ), геасінкліналь (hjeasinklinalʹ), сінклінальная складка (sinklinalʹnaja skladka) Bulgarian: синклинала (sinklinala) Catalan: sinclinal m Chinese: Mandarin: 向斜 (zh) (xiàngxié) Czech: synklinála f Dutch: syncline (nl) Esperanto: synklinale Estonian: sünklinaal Finnish: synkliini (fi) French: synclinal (fr) Georgian: სინკლინი (sinḳlini) German: Synklinale f Hebrew: קער (he) Hindi: अभिनति f (abhinati) Irish: cuaschlaonas Italian: sinclinale f Japanese: 向斜 (こうしゃ, kousha) Kazakh: cинклиналь (cinklinal) Malayalam: അഭിനതി (abhinati) Norwegian: synklinal Nynorsk: synklinal Persian: ناودیس (fa) Polish: synklina (pl) f, łęk (pl) m Portuguese: sinclínio Romanian: sinclinal (ro) Russian: синклиналь (ru) (sinklinalʹ), геосинклиналь (ru) (geosinklinalʹ), синклинальная скла́дка (sinklinalʹnaja skládka) Serbo-Croatian: sinklinala (sh), cинклинала Slovak: synklinála Slovene: sinklinala Spanish: sinclinal (es) m Turkish: senklinal (tr) Ukrainian: синкліна́ль (synklinálʹ) Vietnamese: nếp uốn lõm (𡓳𢺝𡔑), nếp lõm (𡓳𡔑)

French

Adjective

synclinal (feminine synclinale, masculine plural synclinaux, feminine plural synclinales)

1. synclinal

Further reading

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