tectonic

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to construction or to architecture.
2. (not-comparable) Structural.
3. (not-comparable) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
4. (figuratively, not-comparable) Momentous, utter, vast.

Konzepte

tektonisch

architektonisch

Synonyme

architectonic

architectural

structural

continental

Übersetzungen

tectonique

tectónico

tettonico

τεκτονικός

tectònic

tektonik

architectonique

arquitetônico

arkitektonik

architectural

tectonico

tectônico

tectónico

Etymologie (Englisch)

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 *teḱ- (“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn) + -ic (“pertaining to”).