tectonic

See also: tectònic

English

Etymology

1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894. Surface analysis is τέκτων (téktōn) +‎ -ic (“pertaining to”).

Adjective

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. (figurative) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• tectonic keratoplasty
• tectonic plate
• tectonic uplift
• tectonic weapon

 

Related terms

• lithotectonic
• tectonics

 

Translations

relating to construction or architecture

• German: architektonisch (de)
• Mandarin: 地殼構造／地壳构造
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: tectónico (pt), tectônico
• Spanish: tectónico (es)

(geology) relating to large-scale movements

• Catalan: tectònic
• Czech: tektonický
• Danish: tektonisk
• Finnish: tektoninen (fi)
• French: tectonique (fr)
• Galician: tectónico m
• German: tektonisch (de)
• Hungarian: tektonikus (hu)
• Irish: teicteonach
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: tettonico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tektonisk

  Nynorsk: tektonisk

• Polish: tektoniczny (pl) m
• Spanish: tectónico (es)
• Swedish: tektonisk (sv)

Anagrams

• concetti