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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An anticline or syncline so tightly folded that the rock beds of the two sides are nearly parallel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a fold in which the strata are so appressed that the limbs or flanks (the parts on each side of the axis of the fold) are isoclinal, or dip in the same direction. See
monocline . Also calledoverturn , or overturned anticlinal.
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- noun geology A tightly folded
syncline oranticline in which the two sides are almostparallel - noun mathematics Any of a series of
lines having the sameslope - noun A line on a
map linking places with the samemagnetic dip
Etymologies
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From iso- + -cline (“slope”).
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