[
US
/ænˈtɪpədəɫ/
]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth
antipodal regions of the earth
antipodean latitudes
antipodal points on a sphere
NOUN
- the relation of opposition along a diameter
How To Use antipodal In A Sentence
- Somehow out of these nearly antipodal situations a coherent policy of managerial control will have to be fashioned.
- Finally, Antarctica is antipodal to the Arctic Ocean, mostly, as if its core had been pushed southward.
- A basic definition of a world circumnavigation would be a route which covers at least a great circle, and in particular one which passes through at least one pair of points antipodal to each other.
- Since about 80% of the world's land is antipodal to ocean, this list is necessarily very short.
- Its vertices are R ’, G ’, and B ’, which are the points antipodal to R, G, and B respectively.
- For these maps a region of the northern hemisphere is superimposed with the corresponding antipodal area.
- Britain, with an exploding crime rate at the turn of the 18th century and its jails crammed past capacity with mostly minor felons, arrived at a solution: the establishment of an antipodal maximum-security prison whose perimeters were on the other side of the world and guarded by the thundering Pacific. Cruelty in Fact and Fiction
- The angiosperm female gametophyte, called the embryo sac, consists of four cell types: synergid, antipodal, egg, and central cell.
- Mr Levy has certainly prepared O readers for antipodal interpretation of what is written in the local daily of record. Portland "ugly" and "minor-league" to Sports Illustrated (Jack Bog's Blog)
- In both cases, the photographs complement a text that intends to inform metropolitan viewers about antipodal social problems, and in both cases the ambiguity and complexity of the photographs challenge any simple interpretation.