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anticlastic

anticlastic adjective: curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped.

Adjective

anticlastic

  1. curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped
  2. of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is negative at all points

anticlastic meaning in Tamil and Bengali

anticlastic in Tamil

எதிர் வளைவரை பண்புடைய

anticlastic in Bengali

জিন, স্যাডল আকৃতির

Antonyms of anticlastic

Origin of anticlastic

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + κλαστός (klastós, “broken in pieces”) + -ic.

Words that rhyme with anticlastic

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Questions about anticlastic

What does anticlastic mean?
Anticlastic means curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped.
What is anticlastic in Tamil?
Anticlastic in Tamil is எதிர் வளைவரை பண்புடைய. See Anticlastic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anticlastic?
Anticlastic is an adjective.

Words near anticlastic in the dictionary

  1. anticlassical
  2. anticlassicism
  3. anticlassicist
  4. anticlassicists
  5. anticlassism
  6. anticlastic
  7. anticlastogenic
  8. anticlastogenicity
  9. Anticlea
  10. anticlergy
  11. anticleric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anticlastic (page history and authors); anticlastic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anticlastic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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