Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or situated on the opposite side or sides of the earth.
- adjective Diametrically opposed; exactly opposite.
- noun One of usually three cells situated at the opposite end from the egg in the mature embryo sac of a flowering plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to the antipodes; situated on or belonging to opposite sides of the globe.
- Hence At the opposite end or extreme; diametrically opposite.
- Also antipodic, antipodical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.
- adjective Diametrically opposite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective On
opposite sides of theglobe - adjective
diametrically opposite - noun biology One of the
cells at thechalazal pole of anembryo sac .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the relation of opposition along a diameter
- adjective relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth
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Examples
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At the top of this macrospore or embryo-sac two or three germinal vesicles are formed by free cell formation, and also two or three cells called antipodal cells, since they travel to the other end of the embryo-sac; these latter represent a rudimentary prothallium.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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The three cells at the opposite end are known as antipodal cells and become invested with a cell-wall.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The discourse between evangelical Christians and atheists has been antipodal at best.
Frank Fredericks: God, We Need Atheists Frank Fredericks 2011
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Parts of the far north of Canada and Alaska, and most of Greenland, are antipodal to the coast of Antarctica.
I guess you could call this the NATO meme nwhyte 2010
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The discourse between evangelical Christians and atheists has been antipodal at best.
Frank Fredericks: God, We Need Atheists Frank Fredericks 2011
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Silence was complicit consent to bomb Libya and now it has an antipodal effect because it lends legitimacy to the despot of Damascus.
Michael Hughes: UN Fiddles While Syria Burns Michael Hughes 2011
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Silence was complicit consent to bomb Libya and now it has an antipodal effect because it lends legitimacy to the despot of Damascus.
Michael Hughes: UN Fiddles While Syria Burns Michael Hughes 2011
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Mr Levy has certainly prepared O readers for antipodal interpretation of what is written in the local daily of record.
Portland "ugly" and "minor-league" to Sports Illustrated (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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There is also the antipodal farthest point from everyone on Earth.
atlas(t) clairelight 2009
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Britain, with an exploding crime rate at the turn of the 18th century and its jails crammed past capacity with mostly minor felons, arrived at a solution: the establishment of an antipodal maximum-security prison whose perimeters were on the other side of the world and guarded by the thundering Pacific.
Cruelty in Fact and Fiction Adam Ross 2011
uselessness commented on the word antipodal
The point exactly opposite from a given point on an object's surface. If you want to circumnavigate the globe, you could walk in a little circle around either pole. But few will take you seriously unless you traverse through two antipodal points, to ensure that you've traveled the earth's full circumference.
October 15, 2007