synclinal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aɪnəl
Adjective
[edit]synclinal (comparative more synclinal, superlative most synclinal)
- (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 90°
- Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 75:
- The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.
- (geology) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.
- a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “geology”): anticlinal
Translations
[edit]formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane
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Noun
[edit]synclinal (plural synclinals)
- (geology) A synclinal fold.
- 1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195:
- 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, […]
Translations
[edit]synclinal fold
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French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]synclinal (feminine synclinale, masculine plural synclinaux, feminine plural synclinales)
Further reading
[edit]- “synclinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱley- (incline)
- English terms prefixed with syn-
- English terms suffixed with -clinal
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