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anticlinical

anticlinical is the misspelling of anticlinal.

Meaning of anticlinal

Adjective

anticlinal (comparative more anticlinal, superlative most anticlinal)

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

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Questions about anticlinical

What is anticlinical the misspelling of?
Anticlinical is the misspelling of anticlinal.

Words near anticlinical in the dictionary

  1. anticlinals
  2. anticline
  3. anticlined
  4. anticlines
  5. anticling
  6. anticlinical
  7. anticlinoria
  8. anticlinorium
  9. anticlinoriums
  10. anticliny
  11. anticlique

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