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Webster 1913 Edition
Anticlastic
Anˊti-clas′tic
(ănˊtĭ-klăs′tĭk)
, Adj.
[Pref.
anti-
= Gr. κλᾶν
to break.] Having opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.
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Definition 2024
anticlastic
anticlastic
English
Adjective
anticlastic
- (of a surface) curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped
- (mathematics) of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is negative at all points
Antonyms
Translations
curved in opposite ways in two directions
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