Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the curvatures of all normal sections similarly directed: noting a curved surface so characterized, as that of a ball: opposed to anticlastic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a surface
curved toward the same side in all directions - adjective mathematics of a
surface whose Gaussian curvature ispositive at all points
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Examples
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We decided it was time to finally meet, and the daffodil party seemed the perfect time, so we crossed our fingers and hoped a chrono-synclastic infundibulum would not result.
Dueling (and Partying) Scott Edelmans scottedelman 2010
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He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago "filled with bittersweet lies," a narrator says).
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In "The Sirens of Titan" (1959), there is a mathematical point where everybody is right all the time -- "the chrono-synclastic infundibulum."
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He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago “filled with bittersweet lies,” a narrator says).
Archive 2007-04-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Time and again our history plies the same synclastic waters;
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Time and again our history plies the same synclastic waters;
Archive 2005-05-08 2005
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"Future Guy" could have sent them hurtling back through the space-time continuum (or as Stony Stephenson knew it in 'Between Time And Timbuktu', the chrono-synclastic infundibulum) in order to insure that the Suliban (as the most logical alien race to be involved) did not cause the baby's death.
A PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT Toby O'B 2005
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The Chrono-synclastic infundibulum, for example, if l've got that right.
Don't Panic Gaiman, Neil 1993
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Negative Poisson's ratio in plane may also make draping of prepregs easier because they will naturally form synclastic curvatures (dome shapes) as opposed to anticlastic curvatures (saddle shapes) like positive PR versions.
iMechanica - Comments Ajay B Harish 2010
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Negative Poisson's ratio in plane may also make draping of prepregs easier because they will naturally form synclastic curvatures (dome shapes) as opposed to anticlastic curvatures (saddle shapes) like positive PR versions.
iMechanica - Comments Lifeng Wang 2010
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