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Etymology[edit]

1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latintectonicus, from Ancient Greekτεκτονικός(tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greekτέκτων(téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European*tek-(“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894.^[1] Surface analysis is τέκτων(téktōn) +‎ -ic(“pertaining to”).

Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes since the 1960s. Tectonic definition, of or relating to building or construction; constructive; architectural. A massive shift occurs in the Spirit realm, and the earth cries out. A few days later the Spirit realm experiences another massive shift as Jesus is rises from the dead. Once again creation cries out in the form of an earthquake. We know that earthquakes occur when massive tectonic plates shift far beneath the surface of the earth. The motion of the earth's tectonic plates (= sections of the planet's surface) A tectonic change is a very important one that will have major effects: He led the company through a period of tectonic shifts in the movie industry. The process of writing is in the midst of a tectonic change caused by changes in the technology writers use.

Adjective[edit]

tectonic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to construction or to architecture
2. (biology)Structural
3. (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's lithosphere
4. (figuratively)momentous, utter, vast
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But it would be a mistake to imagine that we are benignly coming full circle, or even that we are finding that the old ways are still the most efficient. A tectonic shift has occurred.

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References[edit]

1. ^ Douglas Harper, “tectonic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

African Tectonic Plate Shift

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Adjective[edit]

Twinmotion download mac. tectonicm or n (feminine singulartectonică, masculine pluraltectonici, feminine and neuter pluraltectonice)

Tectonic Shift Definition

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Tectonic Plate Shift