tectonic

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Synoniemen

architectonic

architectural

structural

continental

Vertalingen

tectonique

tectónico

tektonisch

tectònic

τεκτονικός

tettonico

architectonique

arquitetônico

tektonik

arkitektonik

architektonisch

architectural

tectonico

Etymologie (Engels)

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”).