monoclinal
English
Etymology
Adjective
monoclinal (not comparable)
- (geology) Having one oblique inclination; applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monoclinal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)