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comparative more synclinal, superlative most synclinal
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 90° examples
Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line. quotations examples
The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 75
(geology) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.
plural synclinals
(geology) A synclinal fold. quotations
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, […]
1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195