synclinal

English

Etymology

From syn- +‎ -clinal.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪnəl

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 […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 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

• (antonym(s) of "geology"): anticlinal

Translations

formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane

• Finnish: synkliininen
• French: synclinal (fr)
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: अभिनतीय f (abhinatīya)
• Polish: synklinalny (pl)
• Portuguese: sinclinal

Noun

synclinal (plural synclinals)

1. (geology) A synclinal fold.
   • 1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195:

     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, […]

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) (xiàngxié)

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

  Nynorsk: synklinal

• Persian: ناودیس (fa)
• Polish: synklina (pl) f, łęk (pl) m
• 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
• Turkish: senklinal (tr)
• Ukrainian: синкліна́ль (synklinálʹ)
• Vietnamese: nếp uốn lõm (𡓳𢺝𡔑), nếp lõm (𡓳𡔑)

French

Adjective

synclinal (feminine synclinale, masculine plural synclinaux, feminine plural synclinales)

1. synclinal

Further reading

• “synclinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.