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Webster 1913 Edition


Synclastic

Syn-clas′tic

,
Adj.
[Pref.
syn-
+ Gr.
κλᾶν
to break.]
(Math. Physics)
Curved toward the same side in all directions; – said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; – opposed to anticlastic.
Sir W. Thomson.