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Tectonic adj.

Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

(Biol.) Structural.

(Geol. & Phys. Geog.) Of, pert. to, or designating, the rock structures and external forms resulting from the deformation of the earth's crust; as, tectonic arches or valleys; tectonic plates.

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Etymology of 'Tectonic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... implicitly within them, there is evidence of a complete artistic command over weight in stone, and an understanding of the "law of weight." But over weight only; the ornament still seems to be not strictly architectural, but, according to the notices of Homer, tectonic, borrowed from the sister arts, above all from the art of the metal-workers, to whom those spaces of the building are left which a later age fills with painting, or relief in stone. The skill of the Asiatic comes ...

— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

Words linked to "Tectonic" : tectonic movement, plate tectonic theory, tectonics, geology