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Definition of Synclastic
1. a. 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.
Definition of Synclastic
1. Adjective. (context: of a surface) curved toward the same side in all directions ¹
2. Adjective. (mathematics) of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is positive at all points ¹
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