Synclastic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Synclastic \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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