synclinal
synclinal adjective: having or relating to a torsion angle between 30° and 90°.
Adjective
synclinal (comparative more synclinal, superlative most synclinal)
- Having or relating to a torsion angle between 30° and 90°
- Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
- The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 75
- Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.
- a synclinal trough or valley
- a synclinal fold
Noun
synclinal (plural synclinals)
- A synclinal 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
synclinal meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Persian and Vietnamese
synclinal in Hindi
- formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane
- अभिनतीय abhinatīya
- synclinal fold
- अभिनति abhinati
synclinal in Malayalam
- synclinal fold
- അഭിനതി abhinati
synclinal in Persian
- synclinal fold
- ناودیس
synclinal in Vietnamese
- synclinal fold
- nếp uốn lõm, nếp lõm
Antonyms of synclinal
Forms of synclinal
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more synclinal |
| superlative | most synclinal |
| Noun | |
| plural | synclinals |
Origin of synclinal
From syn- + -clinal.
Words formed from synclinal
Words that rhyme with synclinal
- urinal
- final
- anticlinal
- interspinal
- officinal
- spinal
- 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 synclinal
- What does synclinal mean?
- Synclinal means having or relating to a torsion angle between 30° and 90°.
- What is synclinal in Hindi?
- Synclinal in Hindi is अभिनतीय (abhinatīya), अभिनति (abhinati). See Synclinal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is synclinal?
- Synclinal can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near synclinal in the dictionary
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