anticlastic
anticlastic. Of a double-curved surface, of which the two curvatures (transverse to each other) lie in opposite directions, convex in length and concave in breadth, or vice versa. This condition can be seen in e.g. a hyperbolic paraboloid roof. See synclastic.
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