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tectonics
[= Ger. tektonik.]
1. A term for the constructive arts in general.
1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §22 A series of arts which form and perfect vessels, implements, dwellings, and places of assembly... We call this class of artistic activities tectonics.
2. Geol. The structural arrangement of rocks in the earth's crust (or on another planet); the branch of geology concerned with the understanding of rock structures, esp. large-scale ones. Cf. plate tectonics s.v. plate n. 21.
1899Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LV. 399 (heading) The tectonics of the district. 1914J. Park Textbk. Geol. xxxiv. 489 By a series of pressure experiments in 1888, Cadell obtained instructive imitations of the tectonics of mountain-building. 1935[see autochthonous a.]. 1976Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 15 May 5/5 The science of tectonics—the study of the movement of these plates—shows that Africa and Europe are in collision. 1982Nature 28 Jan. 290 (heading) The tectonics of Ganymede. |