- What Is Tectonic Shift
- Tectonic Activity Meaning
- Tectonic Shift Definition
- Phrase Tectonic Shift Meaning
- Tectonic Change Meaning
Having great meaning or lasting effect. A tectonic shift in societal trends occurred in the 1960s. Synonyms for tectonic. Big, consequential, earth-shattering, earthshaking, eventful, historic. Always before noun relating to the structure and movement of the surface of the Earth Although the mantle below the tectonic plates is solid, it does move. As a result of the depth and magnitude of the earthquake and nature of the tectonic shift, a giant wave spread throughout the.
- Tectonic shift is the movement of the plates that make up Earth’s crust. The Earth is made up of roughly a dozen major plates and several minor plates. The Earth is in a constant state of change. Earth’s crust, called the lithosphere, consists of 15 to 20.
- Parties challenging the validity of the arbitration agreement tend to forget that the doctrine of separability is no more at a nascent stage and it is time to recognise the same considering the tectonic shift in the legislative policy which is pro-arbitration.
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What Is Tectonic Shift
Etymology[edit]
1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latintectonicus, from Ancient Greekτεκτονικός(tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greekτέκτων(téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European*tek-(“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894.[1] Surface analysis is τέκτων(téktōn) + -ic(“pertaining to”).
Adjective[edit]
tectonic (not comparable)
Tectonic Activity Meaning
- 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
- (figuratively)momentous, utter, vast
- 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.
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Tectonic Shift Definition
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References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper, “tectonic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
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Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Frenchtectonique
Adjective[edit]
tectonicm or n (feminine singulartectonică, masculine pluraltectonici, feminine and neuter pluraltectonice)
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Phrase Tectonic Shift Meaning
Tectonic Change Meaning
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