tectonics
pronunciation
How to pronounce tectonics in British English:
UK [tek'tɒnɪks]
How to pronounce tectonics in American English:
US [tek'tɒnɪks]
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- Noun:
- the science of architecture
- the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust
Word Origin
- tectonics (n.)
- 1899 in the geological sense, from tectonic (also see -ics); earlier it meant "building or constructive arts in general" (1850).
Example
- 1. What does the theory of plate tectonics maintain ?
- 2. Tectonics of the southern alaskan convergent margin .
- 3. In a crude anticipation of modern plate tectonics , thales professed that the flat earth floated on water .
- 4. This dating method was supplemented by a recalculation of plate tectonics , which explains exactly how and where the fragments ended up in the indian ocean .
- 5. The political tectonics of the globe , like the geological ones beneath the atlantic , may be slowly pushing america and europe farther apart .