Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An epithet descriptive of the curvature of a surface, such as that of a saddle or the inner surface of an anchor-ring, which intersects its tangent-plane at the point of contact, and bends away from it, partly on one side of it and partly on the other, and has thus in some of its normal sections curvatures oppositely directed to those in others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a surface
curved inopposite ways in twodirections ;saddle -shaped - adjective mathematics of a
surface whose Gaussian curvature isnegative at all points
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Examples
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The saddle-shaped structure is also known as a hyperbolic paraboloid surface, or an anticlastic surface.
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The saddle-shaped structure is also known as a hyperbolic paraboloid surface, or an anticlastic surface.
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The saddle-shaped structure is also known as a hyperbolic paraboloid surface, or an anticlastic surface.
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Negative Poisson's ratio in plane may also make draping of prepregs easier because they will naturally form synclastic curvatures (dome shapes) as opposed to anticlastic curvatures (saddle shapes) like positive PR versions.
iMechanica - Comments Ajay B Harish 2010
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Negative Poisson's ratio in plane may also make draping of prepregs easier because they will naturally form synclastic curvatures (dome shapes) as opposed to anticlastic curvatures (saddle shapes) like positive PR versions.
iMechanica - Comments Lifeng Wang 2010
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Both of these anticlastic bracelets, made by David Mayer, are indicitive of the organic, natural shapes that characterize the artist's work.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anticlastic
JM is most definitely an anticlastic verbalist.
April 6, 2011