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Definition of Tectonic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust. "Tectonic valleys"

Definition of Tectonic

1. a. Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

2. a. Structural.

Definition of Tectonic

1. Adjective. of or relating to construction or to architecture ¹

2. Adjective. (geology) of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's lithosphere ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tectonic

1. pertaining to construction [adj] - See also: construction

Medical Definition of Tectonic

1. 1. Relating to variations in structure in the eye, particularly the cornea. 2. Obsolete term denoting plastic surgery or the restoration of lost parts by grafting. Origin: G. Tektonikos, relating to building (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tectonic

Literary usage of Tectonic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Deposits of the Useful Minerals & Rocks: Their Origin, Form, and Content by Franz Heinrich August Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1914)
"38 and 39,the sunken portion between them is known as a 'tectonic depression';' when they dip away from one another in the manner shown in Figs. ..."

2. Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology by Clarence Edward Dutton (1904)
"CHAPTER IV DISLOCATION OR tectonic QUAKES Chilian Dislocations and Associated Earthquakes—Similar Phenomenon in Cook's Straits—The Sonora Quake of May 3, ..."

3. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Mountains classified according to Structure and Origin ; Original or tectonic Mountains —their Erosion and Transformation ; Subsequent or Relict Mountains. ..."

4. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Mountains classified according to Structure and Origin ; Original or tectonic Mountains —their Erosion and Transformation ; Subsequent or Relict Mountains. ..."

5. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1910)
"Mountains classified according to Structure and Origin ; Original or tectonic Mountains —their Erosion and Transformation ; Subsequent or Relict Mountains. ..."

6. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"ON MASS-MOVEMENTS IN tectonic EARTHQUAKES. THE MOVEMENTS BEFORE AND DURING ... The following is the conception of the events leading up to a tectonic ..."

7. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"In earlier numbers of this series there have been reviewed or translated recent papers dealing with the tectonic geography of the eastern border of the ..."

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