anticlastic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped
  2. of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is negative at all points

Word forms

anticlastic

Etymology

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

Antonyms

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