anticlinal
anticlinal adjective: inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
Adjective
anticlinal (comparative more anticlinal, superlative most anticlinal)
- Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
- Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
- Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°.
- Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
Noun
anticlinal (plural anticlinals)
- An anticlinal fold.
- 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, […]1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195
anticlinal meaning in Tamil
anticlinal in Tamil
- ஆண்ட்டிக்கிலைனல், ஆரப்போக்கு, எதிர்ச்சாய்வுள்ள, சாய்வற்ற, நில அடுக்கின்கவிகை மடிப்பு
Forms of anticlinal
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more anticlinal |
| superlative | most anticlinal |
| Noun | |
| plural | anticlinals |
Origin of anticlinal
From anticline + -al.
Words formed from anticlinal
Phrases with anticlinal
Words that rhyme with anticlinal
- urinal
- final
- interspinal
- officinal
- spinal
- synclinal
- bulbospinal
- clinal
- doctrinal
- extravaginal
- geosynclinal
- intravaginal
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- matutinal
- quarterfinal
- rhinal
- semifinal
- serotinal
- vaginal
- abdominovaginal
- affinal
- anginal
- anospinal
- anovaginal
- antevaginal
- audiospinal
- binal
- botulinal
- brachiovaginal
- carinal
- cerebellospinal
- cerebrospinal
- cervicovaginal
- ciliospinal
- circumvaginal
- clitourethrovaginal
- coeruleospinal
- colovaginal
- corticospinal
- craniospinal
- diencephalospinal
- encephalospinal
- endovaginal
- enterovaginal
- epispinal
- eugeosynclinal
- extraspinal
- hemispinal
- holospinal
- hypothalamospinal
- ileovaginal
- iliospinal
- infraspinal
- intervaginal
- intra-vaginal
- intraspinal
- ischiovaginal
- isoclinal
- mediastinal
- medullispinal
- medullospinal
Questions about anticlinal
- What does anticlinal mean?
- Anticlinal means inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
- What is anticlinal in Tamil?
- Anticlinal in Tamil is ஆண்ட்டிக்கிலைனல், ஆரப்போக்கு, எதிர்ச்சாய்வுள்ள. See Anticlinal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is anticlinal?
- Anticlinal can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near anticlinal in the dictionary
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