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AnaclasticAnaclastic An`a*clas"tic, a. [Gr. ? to bend back and break; to
reflect (light); ? + ? to break.]
1. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen
through water; as, anaclastic curves.
2. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted
funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out
a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with
a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the
orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its
former convex form. Anaclastic glassAnaclastic An`a*clas"tic, a. [Gr. ? to bend back and break; to
reflect (light); ? + ? to break.]
1. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen
through water; as, anaclastic curves.
2. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted
funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out
a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with
a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the
orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its
former convex form. AnaclasticsAnaclastics An`a*clas"tics, n. (Opt.)
That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light;
-- commonly called dioptrics. --Encyc. Brit. Anticlastic
Anticlastic An`ti*clas"tic, a. [Pref. anti- = Gr. ? to break.]
Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally
in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction,
as the surface of a saddle.
AutoclasticAutoclastic Au`to*clas"tic, a. [See Auto-; Clastic.]
(Geol.)
Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or
brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of
brecciated materials brought from a distance. Clastic
Clastic Clas"tic, a. [Gr. ? br?, fr. ? to break.]
1. Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy
(of models).
2. (Min.) Fragmental; made up of brok? fragments; as,
sandstone is a clastic rock.
Cranioclast
Cranioclast Cra"ni*o*clast (-kl?st), n. (Med.)
An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate
delivery in difficult eases.
Disdiaclast
Disdiaclast Dis*di"a*clast, n. [Gr. di`s- twice + ? to break
in twain; dia` through + ? to break.] (Physiol.)
One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks
of muscle fibers.
Iconoclastic
Iconoclastic I*con`o*clas"tic, a.
Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.
--Milman.
Idoloclast
Idoloclast I*dol"o*clast, n. [Gr. ? idol + ? to break.]
A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.
Lithoclast
Lithoclast Lith"o*clast (l[i^]th"[-o]*kl[a^]st), n. [Litho- +
Gr. kla^n to break.] (Surg.)
An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.
Orthoclastic
Orthoclastic Or`tho*clas"tic, a. (Crystallog.)
Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said
of the monoclinic feldspars.
Osteoclast
Osteoclast Os"te*o*clast, n. [Osteo- + Gr. ? to break.]
1. (Physiol.) A myeloplax.
Note: The osteoclasts occur usually in pits or cavities which
they appear to have excavated, and are supposed to be
concerned in the absorption of the bone matrix.
2. An instrument for performing osteoclasis.
Synclastic
Synclastic Syn*clas"tic, a. [Pref. syn- + Gr. kla^n to break.]
(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. --Sir W. Thomson.
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