Usually means: Movement and interaction of Earth's plates.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tectonic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tectonic: Merriam-Webster
  3. tectonic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tectonic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tectonic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tectonic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tectonic, tectonic: Wordnik
  8. tectonic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tectonic: Wiktionary
  10. tectonic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tectonic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tectonic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tectonic: Dictionary.com
  14. tectonic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tectonic (record label), Tectonic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tectonic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tectonic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tectonic: Rhymezone
  19. Tectonic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tectonic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tectonic: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tectonic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. tectonic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tectonic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tectonic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tectonic: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tectonic: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. tectonic: Nine Planets Glossary
  4. tectonic: Natural History Terms
  5. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. tectonic: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tectonic)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to construction or to architecture.
▸ adjective:  (biology) Structural.
▸ adjective:  (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Momentous, utter, vast.

Similar:
architectonic, tectonophysical, tectological, geotectonic, tectonospheric, architectural, tectosedimentary, constructional, tectonostratigraphic, tectonized, more...

Opposite:
aseismic, non-tectonic

Types:
convergent, divergent, transform, thrust, normal, strike-slip, extensional, compressional, more...

Phrases:
tectonic activity, tectonic plates, plate tectonic, tectonic movements, tectonic map, more...

Adjectives:
post, regional, major, plate, late, current, different, local, active, climatic, caribbean

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Similar:
architectonic, tectonophysical, tectological, geotectonic, tectonospheric, architectural, tectosedimentary, constructional, tectonostratigraphic, tectonized, more...

Opposite:
aseismic, non-tectonic

Types:
convergent, divergent, transform, thrust, normal, strike-slip, extensional, compressional, more...

Phrases:
tectonic activity, tectonic plates, plate tectonic, tectonic movements, tectonic map, tectonic uplift, tectonic plate, tectonic movement, tectonic boundary, tectonic earthquake, plate tectonic theory, more...

Adjectives:
post, regional, major, plate, late, current, different, local, active, climatic, caribbean

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     graphite,     stone,     obsidian, more...



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