tectonic

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

  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.

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Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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”).

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