Definition of Anticlestic

Definition of Anticlestic

An`ti*clas"tic (&?;), a. [Pref. anti- = Gr. &?; to break.] Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(of a surface) curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped
(mathematics) of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is negative at all points

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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