Anticipation

Act of anticipating; foretaste. Anticipative, a. That anticipates. (R.) Anticlinal, a. [Gr. anti, and klino, to incline.] Mark ing inclination in an opposite direction. (Geol.) The A. line ( Fig . 147) is the point a from which the strata diverge in opposite directions; as op Fig . 147. posed to the synclinal line b, where they converge to wards each other.