anticline

English

schematic drawing of an anticline and syncline

Etymology

anti- +‎ -cline

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæntiklaɪn/

Noun

anticline (plural anticlines)

1. (geology) A fold with strata sloping downwards on each side.

   Synonym: upwrap

   Coordinate term: syncline

Holonyms

• antiform

Derived terms

• geanticline
• pseudoanticline

 

Related terms

• anticliny

Translations

anticlinal fold

• Armenian: կամարածալք (hy) (kamaracalkʻ), անտիկլինալ (hy) (antiklinal)
• Azerbaijani: antiklinal
• Basque: antiforme
• Bulgarian: седловина (sedlovina), антиклинала (antiklinala)
• Catalan: anticlinal, anticlí
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 背斜 (zh) (bèixié)

• Dutch: anticline (nl), anticlinaal (nl)
• Esperanto: antiklinalo
• Estonian: antiklinaal
• Finnish: satulapoimu, antikliini (fi)
• French: anticlinal (fr)
• Georgian: ანტიკლინი (anṭiḳlini)
• German: Antiklinale
• Greek: αντίκλινο (el) n (antíklino)
• Hebrew: קמר (he)
• Hindi: अपनति f (apnati)
• Irish: dronnchlaonas
• Italian: anticlinale
• Japanese: 背斜 (はいしゃ, haisha)
• Kazakh: aнтиклиналь (antiklinal), антиклинальдық қатпар (antiklinaldyq qatpar)
• Korean: 배사(背斜) (ko) (baesa)
• Malayalam: അപനതി (apanati)
• Norwegian: antiklinal

  Nynorsk: antiklinal

• Persian: تاقدیس (fa)
• Polish: antyklina f, siodło (pl) n
• Portuguese: anticlinal
• Romanian: anticlinal (ro)
• Russian: антиклина́ль (ru) (antiklinálʹ), антиклинальная скла́дка (antiklinalʹnaja skládka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антиклина́ла f

  Roman: antiklinála (sh) f

• Slovak: antiklinála
• Slovene: antiklinala
• Spanish: anticlinal (es)
• Swedish: antiklinal (sv), antiform
• Turkish: yukaç (tr), antiklinal
• Ukrainian: антикліна́ль (uk) (antyklinálʹ)
• Vietnamese: nếp uốn lồi (𡓳𢺝𡋃), nếp lồi (𡓳𡋃)

Further reading

• anticline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia