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US
/tɛkˈtɑnɪk/
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[ UK /tɛktˈɒnɪk/ ]
[ UK /tɛktˈɒnɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust
tectonic valleys
tectonic plates - of or pertaining to construction or architecture
How To Use tectonic In A Sentence
- Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
- The Early Devonian saw a decline to 20 genera, with a slow return by the end of the Pragian, a tectonically active phase marked by global sea level drawdowns, and provinciality.
- The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation. Habitat fragmentation
- However, the interrelationship between tectonic activity, global sea level change, and the change of paleogeography played a significant role.
- The architectonics of the sculpted locks, the author argues, augment their power to fend off sorcery and other malevolent forces.
- Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
- No doubt we can admire the architectonic structure of these systems aesthetically, as we would un chef-d'oeuvre de l'art. METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION
- The hi-tech visions appear as fully executed architectonic meditations, linking architecture with landscape and making ground-breaking technology an important component of the program. Grand Illusions on the Hudson
- The other extreme involves slow weathering of terrestrial carbonates, their dissolution, river-borne transport, and eventual sedimentation in the ocean, and the element's return to land by geotectonic processes. Global material cycles
- This sort of immense architectonical precision does not stop the piece from revealing candid airs here and there. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website