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Definition of Antipodal

1. Noun. The relation of opposition along a diameter.

2. Adjective. Relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth. "Antipodal points on a sphere"

Definition of Antipodal

1. a. Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

Definition of Antipodal

1. Adjective. On opposite sides of the globe ¹

2. Adjective. diametrically opposite ¹

3. Noun. (biology) One of the cells at the chalazal pole of an embryo sac. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antipodal

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Antipodal

1. Denoting opposite positions; positioned at opposite sides of a cell or other body. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antipodal

antiplasticizer antiplasticizers antiplatelet antiplatyhelmintic agents antiplay antiplays antipleasure antiplectic antipluralist antipluralistic

antipluralists antipneumococcic antipoaching antipodagric antipodagrics antipodal (current term) antipodal cone antipodal opposition antipodals antipode

antipodean antipodeans antipodes antipodicity antipoem antipoems antipoet antipoetic antipoetry

Literary usage of Antipodal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead, ( (1898)
"(1) In the antipodal form of elliptic geometry the intercept between x and y is ... 2. antipodal points — x and — y ; the intercept containing the antipodal ..."

2. Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents by Athelstan Spilhaus (1991)
"antipodal Shoreline Coincidences It was possible to do this by the ... Only about three percent of the surface of the earth is antipodal land (FIG.). ..."

3. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"map was the entrance to that geographer's antipodal world. From a passage interpolated in the Latin text of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) we learn that ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"Result of a Comparison of antipodal Faunas.—Prof. Gill's paper on a comparison of the piscine fauna of the British island with that of the New Zealand ..."

5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"The antipodal region of the same more highly magnified ; the three enlarged antipodal cells lie in the same plane; one of the two Fig. 28. ..."

6. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"Lower end of embryo-sac showing a large mass of antipodal cells.—After CAMPBELL." antipodal cells as at first very small, but immediately after ..."

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