Antipode
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Antipode, Antipodes, or Antipodeans may refer to:
- Antipodal pointAntipodal pointIn mathematics, the antipodal point of a point on the surface of a sphere is the point which is diametrically opposite to it — so situated that a line drawn from the one to the other passes through the centre of the sphere and forms a true diameter....
, the diametrically opposite point on a sphere - Antipodes Water CompanyAntipodes Water CompanyAntipodes Water Company is a New Zealand water-bottling company. Antipodes water is sourced from an aquifer 327 metres below the ground in the Bay of Plenty, on the east coast of the North Island. In 2006, Antipodes was named the best-tasting carbonated bottled water by the Berkeley Springs...
, a premium bottled water brand - Antipode (algebra), the convolution inverse of the identity on a Hopf algebra
- Antipode (chemistry)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. A solution of the opposite enantiomer, the antipode, rotates plane polarized light in the opposite...
, a synonym for the term enantiomer - AntipodesAntipodesIn geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points that are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line running through the centre of the Earth....
, the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to another region - Antipodes (mental state), a concept in the essay Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
- Antipodes IslandsAntipodes IslandsThe Antipodes Islands are inhospitable volcanic islands to the south of—and territorially part of—New Zealand...
, inhospitable volcanic islands - The AntipodesThe AntipodesThe 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...;" "the most sophisticated and ingenious of Brome's...
, a Caroline-era stage play by Richard Brome - Antipodeans, inhabitants of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, see AntipodesAntipodesIn geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points that are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line running through the centre of the Earth....
- Antipodeans, 20th-century Australian art group
- Antipodes (sculpture)Antipodes (sculpture)Antipodes is a public artwork by American sculptor Jim Sanborn located outside of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, United States.-Description:...
by Jim Sanborn - Antipode (journal)Antipode (journal)Antipode is an academic journal that publishes in the field of critical geography. The journal publishes articles with Marxist, socialist, anarchist, anti-racist, and feminist approaches to geography with a left-wing focus...
, an academic journal