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单词 anticlastic
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anticlasticadj.

/æntɪˈklæstɪk/
Etymology: formed as if < Greek *ἀντικλαστικός, < ἀντικλᾶν, < ἀντί contrary + κλᾶν to bend.
Applied to a double-curved surface, of which the two curvatures, transverse to each other, are in opposite directions; convex in its length, and concave in its breadth, or vice versâ.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > identically or oppositely in two planes
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1867 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. I. i. §128 We may divide curved surfaces into Anticlastic and Synclastic. A saddle gives a good example of the former class; a ball of the latter..The outer portion of an anchor-ring is synclastic, the inner anticlastic.
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