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Synclastic
a.
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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.
Synclinal
a.
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Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
Synclinal
a.
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Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.
Synclinal
n.
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A synclinal fold.
Syncline
n.
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A synclinal fold.
Synclinical
a.
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Synclinal.
Synclinoria
pl.
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of Synclinorium
Synclinorium
n.
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A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.
Syncopal
a.
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Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.
Syncopated
imp. & p. p.
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of Syncopate
Syncopating
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Syncopate
Syncopate
v. t.
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To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."
Syncopate
v. t.
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To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
Syncopation
n.
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The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
Syncopation
n.
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The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
Syncope
n.
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An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.
Syncope
n.
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Same as Syncopation.
Syncope
n.
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A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.
Syncope
n.
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A pause or cessation; suspension.
Syncopist
n.
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One who syncopates.
Syncopize
v. t.
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To syncopate.
Syncotyledonous
a.
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Having united cotyledonous.
Syncretic
a.
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Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.
Syncretism
n.
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Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.
Syncretist
n.
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One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;
Syncretist
n.
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an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.
Syncretistic
a.
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Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.
Syncretistic
a.
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Of or pertaining to Syncretists.
Syncrisis
n.
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A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared.
Syncitia
pl.
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of Syncytium