tectonic
1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Old Greek τεκτονικός, from Old Greek τέκτων, from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (from which also texture). Adjective
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1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Old Greek τεκτονικός, from Old Greek τέκτων, from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (from which also texture). Adjective
tectonic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to construction or to architecture
- (biology) Structural
- (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's lithosphere
- (figurative) momentous, utter, vast
- German: architektonisch
- Portuguese: tectónico, tectônico
- Spanish: tectónico
- French: tectonique
- German: tektonisch
- Italian: tettonico
- Spanish: tectónico
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