Get to know Tectonic better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like morphology or geomorphology.
Tectonic meaning
- Of or relating to construction or to architecture.
- Structural.
- Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
Synonyms of Tectonic
Using Tectonic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to construction or to architecture. | Structural. | Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
- Useful related words include: morphology, geomorphology, architectonic, science.
- In the example corpus, tectonic often appears in combinations such as: tectonic plates, the tectonic, tectonic plate.
Context around Tectonic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tectonic
- In this selection, "tectonic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thin, cause, american, plates, shift and subduction stand out and add context to how "tectonic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tectonic shift is, and african tectonic plates but and tectonic plate. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tectonic" sits close to words such as accolade, accompaniment and artistry, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tectonic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Metallogeny and tectonic development of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Tasmania. (12 words)
But for us, there had been a shift in the tectonic plates of our twinship. (15 words)
A "tectonic shift" is coming as the US moves from one interest rate benchmark to another. (16 words)
As Black-owned, Australian boutique brand, Liandra Swim’s Deep Sea Collection draws inspiration from the Mariana Trench and tectonic plates, as a metaphor for the balance of how humanity and society sit, connect, and clash with each other. (39 words)
At least 37 of these were volcano-tectonic earthquakes that were associated with rock fracturing processes at depths of 1 to 9 kilometers beneath the northwestern and southeastern slopes of the volcano edifice. (33 words)
At different sections, you can simply skip from the Eurasian and onto the North American tectonic plate but at its deepest points you struggle to see the bottom of the dark abyss. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
It begins at tectonic subduction zones where the relatively thin tectonic plates atop oceans are dragged down below thicker plates that sit atop continents.
Because tectonic processes are driven by gradients in the stress field developed in the crust, this unloading can in turn cause tectonic or isostatic uplift in the region.
Tectonic plates main The mechanically rigid outer layer of Earth, the lithosphere, is broken into pieces called tectonic plates.
As AI and ML evolve in tandem with sweeping advances in robotics and automation, the economic impact will be tectonic.
As Black-owned, Australian boutique brand, Liandra Swim’s Deep Sea Collection draws inspiration from the Mariana Trench and tectonic plates, as a metaphor for the balance of how humanity and society sit, connect, and clash with each other.
As we approach 2024, we may remember 2023 as a major turning point in history best summarized by the tectonic shift in geopolitics from a unipolar world toward a multipolar one.
At different sections, you can simply skip from the Eurasian and onto the North American tectonic plate but at its deepest points you struggle to see the bottom of the dark abyss.
A "tectonic shift" is coming as the US moves from one interest rate benchmark to another.
At least 37 of these were volcano-tectonic earthquakes that were associated with rock fracturing processes at depths of 1 to 9 kilometers beneath the northwestern and southeastern slopes of the volcano edifice.
But because the sea floor is constantly being built up and destroyed by tectonic plates, the oldest sea floor on Earth is no more than 170 million years old.
But for us, there had been a shift in the tectonic plates of our twinship.
Honshu, Japan's main island, lies at the intersection between three tectonic plates – Eurasian, Philippine and North American.
It is indeed possible to have a Sufi reading of all these geopolitical and geoeconomic tectonic plates in motion.
It is one of the most geologically active places on earth due to its position on the mid-Atlantic ridge where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates rift apart.
It lies where two of the great tectonic plates on (the North American and Eurasian plates) meet in the Atlantic Ocean, called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
It occurred in a region that lies along the of the European and African tectonic plates—but, nonetheless, it was a rare event for western Morocco.
It remains to be seen if, as in 1973, the Hamas attack will lead to a tectonic shift in Israeli politics and the country’s relationship with the Palestinians.
It straddles two tectonic plates, which are divided by an undersea mountain chain that oozes molten hot rock, or magma.
Like the tectonic plates, the crorepati candidates are pushing and shaking each other to occupy the high chair.
Metallogeny and tectonic development of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Tasmania.
Phrases with tectonic
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with tectonic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tectonic plates 56×
- the tectonic 22×
- tectonic plate 17×
- of tectonic 14×
- tectonic shift 11×
- tectonic activity 10×
- to tectonic 8×
- tectonic shifts 8×
- and tectonic 7×
- tectonic movements 7×