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ˈtectonist
[f. tectonic a. + -ist.]
†1. A constructor, a builder. obs. nonce-wd.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. ii. xx. (1865) 106 As is their husbands occasion these poor tectonists [the squaws] are often troubled like snailes, to carrie their houses on their backs.
2. Geol. A specialist in tectonics. rare.
1933Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCXXV. 441 Becker's work has been to a large extent discarded by tectonists as being too highly theoretical to be of practical value in the interpretation of rock structure. 1935[see Hercynian a. 2 c]. |