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antipodes::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | region |
| Derivation | antipodal |
the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes.
Examples of antipodes
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To travel from the antipodes to Europe involved an expensive six week sea voyage.
From the economist.com
Don Peebles, who has died aged 88, was a pioneer of abstract art in the antipodes.
From the guardian.co.uk
Numerous smaller western Pacific islands also find their antipodes in Brazil.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the Carolingian era, scholars discussed Macrobius's view of the antipodes.
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For example, the antipodes of New Zealand's lower North Island lies in Spain.
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Some cities and towns which are near-antipodes in equirectangular projection.
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Easter Island finds its antipodes in the western corner of Rajasthan, India.
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Paddy emigrated to the antipodes, John lived and worked around Ballycastle.
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The Australian mainland is the largest landmass with its antipodes entirely in ocean.
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- Any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"
- (antipode) direct opposite; "quiet: an antipode to focused busyness"
- In geography, the antipodes (/u00E6nu02C8tu026Apu0259diu02D0z/; from Greek: u1F00u03BDu03C4u03AFu03C0u03BFu03B4u03B5u03C2) of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points that are antipodal /u00E6nu02C8tu026Apu0259du0259l/ to each other are connected by a straight line running through the centre of the Earth.
- The American Association for Australian Literary Studies (AAALS) is an organization of scholars in North America that studies and promotes research in the literature of Australia. Its activities are partially funded by the Literature Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts. ...
- Heaven and Hell is a philosophical work by Aldous Huxley, published in 1956. The title is derived from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. The essay discusses the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs, psychoactives, art, and profound experience. ...
- Antipodes (Perry / Hoffmann / Marlin / SAL), originally called the PC15, was built by Perry Submarine in 1973. The sub was utilized for diver lock-out operations in the oil fields of the North Sea.
- The Antipodes is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome c. 1640. Many critics have ranked The Antipodes as "his best play...Brome's masterpiece," and one of the best Caroline comedies -- "gay, imaginative, and spirited... ...
- (Antipode (algebra)) In mathematics, a Hopf algebra, named after Heinz Hopf, is a structure that is simultaneously a (unital associative) algebra, a (counital coassociative) coalgebra, with these structures compatible making it a bialgebra, and moreover is equipped with an antiautomorphism ...
- (Antipode (chemistry)) In chemistry, antipode is synonymous with optical antipode. An optical antipode is the same as an enantiomer. A solution of enantiomer rotates plane polarized light in a certain direction (see optical rotation). A solution of the opposite enantiomer (a.k.a. ...
