tectonic

/tek-ton-ik/US // tɛkˈtɒn ɪk //UK // (tɛkˈtɒnɪk) //

构造,构造学,构造性,构造主义

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of or relating to building or construction; constructive; architectural.
- : Geology. pertaining to the structure of the earth's crust.referring to the forces or conditions within the earth that cause movements of the crust.designating the results of such movements: tectonic valleys.

as instructural

Synonyms

Some say that hardened extremists are often beyond reach until a tectonic shift in their own lives forces self-reflection.
The Americas are moving away from Europe and Africa by a few centimeters each year, as the tectonic plates underlying those continents drift apart.
Earth’s happens to include the powerful cycle of plate tectonics.
We’ll be looking back at transformative moments in science over the last century, starting in this issue with the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s.
Setting aside the tectonic political moment, there’s plenty of activity inside the world of startups we need to discuss.
But even without help from a restless tectonic plate, folks in the Napa Valley get easily agitated.
Some time ago, say a few million years ago, several tectonic plates collided.
Mars has no tectonic plates—no continents, in other words—and no ginormous moon.
Underneath our feet tectonic plates shift, magma bubbles, water boils, and both regularly erupt.
This here is tectonic heat, a contrast hitting at the heart of why we love sport in the first place.
That tectonic earthquakes are closely connected with the formation of faults seems now established beyond doubt.
In all respects, earthquakes differ widely from the Ischian shocks.

/tek-ton-ik/US // tɛkˈtɒn ɪk //UK // (tɛkˈtɒnɪk) //

构造,构造学,构造性,构造主义

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of or relating to building or construction; constructive; architectural.
- : Geology. pertaining to the structure of the earth's crust.referring to the forces or conditions within the earth that cause movements of the crust.designating the results of such movements: tectonic valleys.

as instructural

Synonyms

Some say that hardened extremists are often beyond reach until a tectonic shift in their own lives forces self-reflection.
The Americas are moving away from Europe and Africa by a few centimeters each year, as the tectonic plates underlying those continents drift apart.
Earth’s happens to include the powerful cycle of plate tectonics.
We’ll be looking back at transformative moments in science over the last century, starting in this issue with the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s.
Setting aside the tectonic political moment, there’s plenty of activity inside the world of startups we need to discuss.
But even without help from a restless tectonic plate, folks in the Napa Valley get easily agitated.
Some time ago, say a few million years ago, several tectonic plates collided.
Mars has no tectonic plates—no continents, in other words—and no ginormous moon.
Underneath our feet tectonic plates shift, magma bubbles, water boils, and both regularly erupt.
This here is tectonic heat, a contrast hitting at the heart of why we love sport in the first place.
That tectonic earthquakes are closely connected with the formation of faults seems now established beyond doubt.
In all respects, earthquakes differ widely from the Ischian shocks.