Anticlastic

/ˌæntɪˈklæstɪk/ adjective

Curving in opposite directions along perpendicular axes; describing a surface that curves convexly in one direction and concavely in another.

From anti- (opposite) + Greek klasis (breaking, bending). Technical term in geometry, architecture, and material science describing bidirectional curvature.

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