Antipodal (Noun)
Meaning
The relation of opposition along a diameter.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The Earth and a point antipodal to it have opposite seasons.
- Two antipodal points on the Earth are on the opposite sides of the globe.
- Points on the globe that are antipodal have opposite latitudes and longitudes.
- If a location is at 0° latitude and 0° longitude, its antipodal point is at 0° latitude and 180° longitude.
- Any point on the surface of a sphere has one antipodal point.