Syn*clas"tic (?), a. [Pref. syn- + Gr. kla^n to break.] Math. Physics

Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic.

Sir W. Thomson.

 

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