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单词 antipodal
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Definition of antipodal in English:

antipodal

adjectiveanˈtɪpəd(ə)lænˈtɪpədl
  • 1Relating to or situated on the opposite side of the earth.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Every location on earth has a counterpart that is directly opposite, called its antipodal point.
    • Being a weather geek now I need to know what the antipodal weather is.
    • Ancient geographers like Ptolemy presumed that such a place existed, postulating a ‘terra incognita’ that served as an antipodal ballast to their northern land mass.
    • I must be brave and not let our antipodal friends see the pain I bear at being denied this priceless entertainment.
    • ‘Sure, the antipodal geography is incorrect, but it helps turn the idea of a spherical planet from an abstraction into something concrete,’ Musser says.
    • In both cases, the photographs complement a text that intends to inform metropolitan viewers about antipodal social problems, and in both cases the ambiguity and complexity of the photographs challenge any simple interpretation.
    • The same antipodal vision persists in the stories collected by David Malouf under the title of Antipodes.
    • For these maps a region of the northern hemisphere is superimposed with the corresponding antipodal area.
    Synonyms
    opposite, opposed, opposing, oppositional, diametrically opposed, extreme, contrary, contradictory, antithetical, antagonistic, conflicting, counterbalancing
    1. 1.1antipodal to Diametrically opposed to.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Heard Island is antipodal to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan which was under ice 12,000 years ago.
      • A basic definition of a world circumnavigation would be a route which covers at least a great circle, and in particular one which passes through at least one pair of points antipodal to each other.
      • The important observation is that in dimension three Al needs five steps, even if we tell it that the vertex antipodal to his first query is not the sink.
      • Theorists came up with an explanation for magnetic fields antipodal to impact basins not long after the Apollo measurements hinted at a correlation.
      • Once past the halfway point, the wavefront is no longer diverging, it is converging onto a single point, a point which is exactly antipodal to the source.
      • This open spatial setting is antipodal to the domestic environs of the healing stories of Peter's mother-in-law and the synagogue leader's daughter.
      • The U.S mainland is antipodal to the sea that is west of Australia, down near Antarctica.
      • Slots 11A, 11B are formed through the shaft 11 at points not antipodal to each other, while slots 13A, 13B are formed through the sleeve 13 at points not antipodal to each other.
      • Although Easter Island is antipodal to the Indus Valley, it is more nearly antipodal to the unexcavated city of Ganweriwali than to Mohenjo Daro.
      • Australia is actually antipodal to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, straddling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Tropic of Cancer between the Canary Isles and the Sargasso Sea.
      • Its vertices are R ’, G ’, and B ’, which are the points antipodal to R, G, and B respectively.
      • If so, it would be heavier, and it might have punched all the way through Mars to form the Tharsis Uplift, which is antipodal to the center of Hellas.
      • Finally, Antarctica is antipodal to the Arctic Ocean, mostly, as if its core had been pushed southward.
      • Since this terrain is antipodal to the Caloris Basin, it has been speculated that it may have been caused by a focussing of seismic forces originating from the Caloris impact.
      • Since about 80% of the world's land is antipodal to ocean, this list is necessarily very short.
    2. 1.2Botany Relating to or denoting cells formed at the chalazal end of the embryo sac.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Aposporous embryo sacs were identified easily due to the lack of antipodal cells and because they showed varying positions and orientation within the ovule.
      • The angiosperm female gametophyte, called the embryo sac, consists of four cell types: synergid, antipodal, egg, and central cell.
      • It is, furthermore, the case that the embryo sac itself also exhibits polar organization, with the egg cell and synergids adjacent to the micropyle, while the antipodal cells are found at the opposite chalazal end.
      • The antipodal cells are much smaller than the other cells of the gametophyte and typically persist beyond anthesis.
      • As expected, using the antipodal amino acid resulted in the generation of a polyamino acid capable of catalysing the formation of the enantiomeric, epoxide with equal stereocontrol

Rhymes

tripodal
 
 

Definition of antipodal in US English:

antipodal

adjectiveænˈtɪpədlanˈtipədl
  • 1Relating to or situated on the opposite side of the earth.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In both cases, the photographs complement a text that intends to inform metropolitan viewers about antipodal social problems, and in both cases the ambiguity and complexity of the photographs challenge any simple interpretation.
    • For these maps a region of the northern hemisphere is superimposed with the corresponding antipodal area.
    • I must be brave and not let our antipodal friends see the pain I bear at being denied this priceless entertainment.
    • Being a weather geek now I need to know what the antipodal weather is.
    • Ancient geographers like Ptolemy presumed that such a place existed, postulating a ‘terra incognita’ that served as an antipodal ballast to their northern land mass.
    • ‘Sure, the antipodal geography is incorrect, but it helps turn the idea of a spherical planet from an abstraction into something concrete,’ Musser says.
    • Every location on earth has a counterpart that is directly opposite, called its antipodal point.
    • The same antipodal vision persists in the stories collected by David Malouf under the title of Antipodes.
    Synonyms
    opposite, opposed, opposing, oppositional, diametrically opposed, extreme, contrary, contradictory, antithetical, antagonistic, conflicting, counterbalancing
    1. 1.1antipodal to Diametrically opposed to.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Since this terrain is antipodal to the Caloris Basin, it has been speculated that it may have been caused by a focussing of seismic forces originating from the Caloris impact.
      • If so, it would be heavier, and it might have punched all the way through Mars to form the Tharsis Uplift, which is antipodal to the center of Hellas.
      • Its vertices are R ’, G ’, and B ’, which are the points antipodal to R, G, and B respectively.
      • Australia is actually antipodal to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, straddling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Tropic of Cancer between the Canary Isles and the Sargasso Sea.
      • A basic definition of a world circumnavigation would be a route which covers at least a great circle, and in particular one which passes through at least one pair of points antipodal to each other.
      • Heard Island is antipodal to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan which was under ice 12,000 years ago.
      • Since about 80% of the world's land is antipodal to ocean, this list is necessarily very short.
      • Although Easter Island is antipodal to the Indus Valley, it is more nearly antipodal to the unexcavated city of Ganweriwali than to Mohenjo Daro.
      • Theorists came up with an explanation for magnetic fields antipodal to impact basins not long after the Apollo measurements hinted at a correlation.
      • Finally, Antarctica is antipodal to the Arctic Ocean, mostly, as if its core had been pushed southward.
      • This open spatial setting is antipodal to the domestic environs of the healing stories of Peter's mother-in-law and the synagogue leader's daughter.
      • The important observation is that in dimension three Al needs five steps, even if we tell it that the vertex antipodal to his first query is not the sink.
      • Slots 11A, 11B are formed through the shaft 11 at points not antipodal to each other, while slots 13A, 13B are formed through the sleeve 13 at points not antipodal to each other.
      • The U.S mainland is antipodal to the sea that is west of Australia, down near Antarctica.
      • Once past the halfway point, the wavefront is no longer diverging, it is converging onto a single point, a point which is exactly antipodal to the source.
    2. 1.2Botany Relating to or denoting cells formed at the chalazal end of the embryo sac.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The antipodal cells are much smaller than the other cells of the gametophyte and typically persist beyond anthesis.
      • Aposporous embryo sacs were identified easily due to the lack of antipodal cells and because they showed varying positions and orientation within the ovule.
      • It is, furthermore, the case that the embryo sac itself also exhibits polar organization, with the egg cell and synergids adjacent to the micropyle, while the antipodal cells are found at the opposite chalazal end.
      • As expected, using the antipodal amino acid resulted in the generation of a polyamino acid capable of catalysing the formation of the enantiomeric, epoxide with equal stereocontrol
      • The angiosperm female gametophyte, called the embryo sac, consists of four cell types: synergid, antipodal, egg, and central cell.
 
 
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