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antipodes

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If they are antipodes, then dusk and dawn will happen together every day.

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Quick take

any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"

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noun

any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for antipodes.

noun

any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"

Example sentences

1

If they are antipodes, then dusk and dawn will happen together every day.

2

I was playing with that because I was annoyed by the graph at the antipodes and I wanted to get rid of it.

3

After all, gravity points in the opposite direction as on the other side of the earth; that's why the Australians are called antipodes :-P

4

At some threshold of productivity difference it becomes cost effective to move employees to the antipodes for a season each year.

5

Their ideas of antipodes were rather funny and something the church struggled against for some time until the discovery of the New World but an end to the question....

6

It's basically 24hrs of travelling, as they're near enough each other's antipodes - not quite, France is more like NZ's in Europe, the UK is a lot closer to the pole than we are, but I digress...It sucks.

7

I've definitely never met anyone who used it to mean "I'm about to ask another question" who was aware of the original meaning of the phrase when asked, so we must live at antipodes.

8

I may be overstating, but in todays world you can setup a server in Cambodia and given enough traffic/brilliant idea/etc, make million of dollars off of US citizens, or citizens of any other nation laying on the antipodes.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use antipodes in a sentence?

If they are antipodes, then dusk and dawn will happen together every day.

What does antipodes mean?

any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"

What part of speech is antipodes?

antipodes is commonly used as noun.