Anticlastic \An`ti*clas"tic\ ([a^]n`t[i^]*kl[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Pref. anti- = Gr. kla^n to break.] Having opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle. [1913 Webster]