Definitions for anticlinal

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anticlinal an·ti·cli·nal

Spelling: [an-ti-klahyn-l]

IPA: /ˌæn tɪˈklaɪn l/

Anticlinal is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in anticlinal (aaciillnnt).

Definitions for anticlinal

adjective

1. inclining in opposite directions from a central axis.
2. Geology. inclining downward on both sides from a median line or axis, as a fold of rock strata. pertaining to such a fold.

Origin of anticlinal

1825-35; Greek antiklī́n(ein) to lean against each other (anti- anti- + klī́nein to lean¹) + -al¹

Examples for anticlinal

If an anticlinal arch be a weak structure, a synclinal arrangement of strata is quite the opposite.

Here it is owing to the more enduring character of the igneous rocks that the anticlinal arch has not been entirely removed.

The crest of the Ochils coincides, therefore, more or less closely, with an anticlinal arch or fold of the strata.

The hills are formed by a short, broad, anticlinal fold, which is flat or nearly so on its summit.

The anticlinal fault of Charnwood Forest dates from a pre-carboniferous period.

Synclinal strata therefore endure, while anticlinal strata are worn more readily away.

A natural arch of anticlinal stratification occurs at Talerddig, with every appearance of being built of masonry.

The anticlinal axis runs approximately north-west and south-east, and is thus roughly parallel to the earthquake-fault.

Data are insufficient, however, to indicate the extent to which the anticlinal areas are really areas of maximum shearing.

anticlinal, an-ti-klīn′al, adj. sloping in opposite directions.