Crossword-Solution: ISOCLINAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Isoclinal | a. | Alt. of Isoclinic |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ISOCLINAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dipping equally, in geology. | 1 answer |
| sloping in the same direction and at the same angle | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
AROLDS
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with ISOCLINAL (4)
Isoclinal lines (Magnetism), lines on the earth's surface connecting places at which a dipping needle indicates the same inclination or dip.
The quartzites of this series form the highest hills in the south of Islay, occupy nearly the whole of Jura, and are continued in the mainland, where, by means of the rapid isoclinal folding, they form lenticular masses.
Immediately to the north of the Highland border the Aberfoyle slates and grits appear, repeated by isoclinal folds trending north-east and south-west and dipping towards the north-west.
ISOCLINAL, [=i]-so-kl[=i]'nal (or ISOCLIN'IC), ISODYNAM'IC, and ISOGON'IC LINES, three systems of lines which being laid on maps represent the magnetism of the globe as exhibited at the earth's surface in three classes of phenomena, the varying dip or inclination of the needle, the varying intensity of the force, and its varying declination from the true meridian.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1957).