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Vinony

anticlinal

adjective

  1. line or axis from which strata slope down or dip in opposite directions
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English anticline Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English anticlinal From anticline + -al.

  1. Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
  2. Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
  3. Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°.
  4. Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English anticline Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English anticlinal From anticline + -al.

  1. An anticlinal 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, […]”