anticlinal

English

Etymology

anticline + -al

Pronunciation

  • 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.

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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

  • (file)

Adjective

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

  1. anticlinal

Noun

anticlinal m (plural anticlinaux)

  1. anticline

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Portuguese

Etymology

From anti- + clinal.

Pronunciation

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

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

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