anticlastic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + κλαστός (klastós, “broken in pieces”) +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -æstɪk

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

synclastic

Translations

curved in opposite ways in two directions

Portuguese: anticlástico

Anagrams

Cisatlantic, cis-Atlantic, cisatlantic

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