anticlastic


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anticlastic

(ˌæntɪˈklæstɪk)
adj
(Mathematics) maths (of a surface) having a curvature, at a given point and in a particular direction, that is of the opposite sign to the curvature at that point in a perpendicular direction. Compare synclastic
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