synclinal

English

Etymology

From syn- +‎ -clinal.

Adjective

synclinal (comparative more synclinal, superlative most synclinal)

1. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 90°
2. Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 75:

     The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.

3. (geology) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.

   a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold

Antonyms

• (geology): anticlinal

Translations

formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane

• French: synclinal (fr)
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• Portuguese: sinclinal

Noun

synclinal (plural synclinals)

1. (geology) A synclinal fold.

Translations

synclinal fold

• Basque: sinklinal
• Belarusian: сінкліналь (sinklinalʹ), геасінкліналь (hjeasinklinalʹ), сінклінальная складка (sinklinalʹnaja skladka)
• Bulgarian: синклинала (sinklinala)
• Catalan: sinclinal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 向斜 (zh)

• Dutch: syncline (nl)
• Esperanto: synklinale
• Estonian: sünklinaal
• Finnish: synkliini (fi)
• French: synclinal (fr)
• Georgian: სინკლინი (sinḳlini)
• German: Synklinale f
• Hebrew: קער (he)
• Irish: cuaschlaonas
• Italian: sinclinale f
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• Japanese: 向斜
• Kazakh: cинклиналь (cinklinal)
• Malayalam: അഭിനതി (abhinati)
• Norwegian: synklinal

  Nynorsk: synklinal

• Persian: ناودیس (fa)
• Polish: synklina
• Portuguese: sinclínio
• Romanian: sinclinal (ro)
• Russian: синклиналь (ru) (sinklinalʹ), геосинклиналь (ru) (geosinklinalʹ), синклинальная скла́дка (sinklinalʹnaja skládka)
• Serbo-Croatian: sinklinala (sh), cинклинала
• Slovak: synklinála
• Slovene: sinklinala
• Spanish: sinclinal (es) m
• Ukrainian: синкліна́ль (synklinálʹ)
• Vietnamese: nếp uốn lõm, nếp lõm