PLATE TECTONICS

Meaning of PLATE TECTONICS in English

ˌplate tecˈtonics BrE AmE noun [uncountable] technical

the study of the forming and movement of the large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman - Словарь современного английского языка. 2012

PLATE TECTONICS — noun plural but singular in construction Date: 1969 a theory in geology: the lithosphere of the earth is divided into …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PLATE TECTONICS — Theory that the Earth's lithosphere (the crust and upper portion of the mantle) is divided into about 12 large plates …
Английский словарь Британика
PLATE TECTONICS — noun plural but singular in construction 1. : a theory that the lithosphere of the earth is divided into a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PLATE TECTONICS — — plate-tectonic , adj. Geol. a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PLATE TECTONICS — geological theory that is widely accepted today, theory that the Earth's crust is composed of many separate plates which are …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PLATE TECTONICS — Date: 1969 1. : a theory in geology: the lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PLATE TECTONICS — Function: noun plural but singular in construction Date: 1969 1 : a theory in geology: the lithosphere of the earth …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PLATE TECTONICS — ■ plural noun [treated as sing. ] a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PLATE TECTONICS — [plate tectonics] n pl but sing in constr (1969): a theory in geology: the lithosphere of the earth is divided …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PLATE TECTONICS — theory that the lithosphere (the outer part of solid Earth) is divided into a small number of plates that float …
Britannica English vocabulary
PLATE TECTONICS — noun [ U ] ( geology ) the movements of the large sheets of rock (called plates ) that form …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PLATE TECTONICS — Plate tectonics is the way that large pieces of the earth’s surface move slowly around. ( TECHNICAL ) N-UNCOUNT
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PLATE TECTONICS — Plate tectonics is the way that large pieces of the earth’s surface move slowly around. (TECHNICAL) N-UNCOUNT
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PLATE TECTONICS — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Any plate tectonics model of the Andes must in fact account for the uplift essentially …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PLATE TECTONICS — Theory that the Earth's lithosphere (the crust and upper portion of the mantle) is divided into about 12 large plates …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PLATE TECTONICS — (Geology) The concept that both continents and ocean basis are only the emergent parts of large pieces or plates of …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
PLATE TECTONICS — is the concept that Earth's crust :is composed of rigid plates that move over a less rigid interior. The movements …
Weather and Meteorology English vocabulary
PLATE TECTONICS — Geologic theory that the bending (folding) and breaking (faulting) of the solid surface of the earth results from the slow …
English Glossary Of Geography
PLATE TECTONICS — тектоника плит (геология) плитотектоника, тектоника платформ или плит
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PLATE TECTONICS — Тектоника плит
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PLATE TECTONICS — Тектоника плит
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PLATE TECTONICS — геол. плитотектоника, тектоника платформ или плит
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PLATE TECTONICS — геол. плитотектоника, тектоника платформ или плит
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PLATE TECTONICS — геол. плитотектоника, тектоника платформ или плит
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PLATE TECTONICS — тектоника плит
Большой Англо-Русский словарь по нефти и газу
PLATE TECTONICS — тектоника плит (геология) плитотектоника, тектоника платформ или плит
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
TECTONICS — noun plural but singular or plural in construction Date: 1899 geological structural features as a whole, 2. a branch of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TECTONICS — Scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such …
Английский словарь Британика
PLATE — I. ˈplāt, usu -ād.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from plate, feminine of plat, adjective, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TECTONICS — tekˈtäniks noun plural but usually singular in construction Etymology: from tectonic, after such pairs as economic : economics 1. : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TECTONICS — (n.) The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the …
Английский словарь Webster
TECTONICS — (n.) The science or art by which implements, vessels, buildings, etc., are constructed, both in relation to their use and …
Английский словарь Webster
TECTONICS — ( n. ) The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
TECTONICS — /tek ton"iks/ , n. ( used with a sing. v. ) 1. the science or art of assembling, shaping, or …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PLATE — plate 1 — plateless , adj. — platelike , adj. /playt/ , n. , v. , plated, plating . n. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TECTONICS — n. structural geology, study of the changes and processes taking place in the Earth's crust (Geology); art of building and …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PLATE — I. ˈplāt noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from plate, feminine of plat flat, from Vulgar Latin * plattus, probably …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TECTONICS — noun plural but singular or plural in construction Date: 1899 1. : geological structural features as a whole 2. a. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TECTONICS — add. ·noun the science or art by which implements, vessels, buildings, ·etc., are constructed, both in relation to their use …
Webster English vocab
PLATE — noun a piece of money, usually silver money. 2. plate ·noun a roundel of silver or tinctured argent. 3. plate …
Webster English vocab
TECTONICS — ■ plural noun [treated as sing. or plural ] Geology large-scale processes affecting the structure of the earth's crust.
Concise Oxford English vocab
TECTONICS — [tec.ton.ics] n pl but sing or pl in constr (1899) 1: geological structural features as a whole 2. a: a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PLATE — [plate] n [ME, fr. OF, fr. plate, fem. of plat flat, fr. (assumed) VL plattus, prob. fr. Gk platys broad, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TECTONICS — scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such …
Britannica English vocabulary
PLATE — / pleɪt; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun FOOD 1. [ C ] a flat, usually round, dish that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PLATE — I. plate 1 S2 W2 /pleɪt/ BrE AmE noun [ Sense 1,3,7: Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: French ; Origin: plat …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TECTONICS — n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) 1 Archit. the art and process of producing practical and aesthetically pleasing buildings. 2 Geol. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PLATE — n. & v. --n. 1 a a shallow vessel, usu. circular and of earthenware or china, from which food is …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TECTONICS — n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) 1 Archit. the art and process of producing practical and aesthetically pleasing buildings. 2 Geol. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PLATE — n. & v. n. 1 a a shallow vessel, usu. circular and of earthenware or china, from which food is …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TECTONICS — n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) 1. Archit. the art and process of producing practical and aesthetically pleasing buildings. 2 Geol. …
Oxford English vocab
PLATE — n. & v. --n. 1. a a shallow vessel, usu. circular and of earthenware or china, from which food is …
Oxford English vocab
TECTONICS — see plate tectonics
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PLATE — ( plates) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A plate is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TECTONICS — see plate ~
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PLATE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a soup bowl/plate ▪ Russell pushed his empty soup bowl away. collection plate fashion …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TECTONICS — n. Scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
TECTONICS — Synonyms and related words : anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, build, building, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, creation, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PLATE — Synonyms and related words : Chateaubriand, alveolar ridge, anodized aluminum, antepast, armor, backing, bibliofilm, billhead, bipack, black-and-white film, blade roast, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TECTONICS — сущ. тектоника (специальное) тектоника тектоническая геология, структурная геология tectonics тектоника
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PLATE — 1. сущ. 1) а) пластинка, дощечка; доска vanity plate ≈ заказной буквенный номерной знак б) плита, лист, полоса (металла); листовая …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TECTONICS — Тектоника
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
TECTONICS — tectonics.ogg tekʹtɒnıks n спец. 1. тектоника 2. тектоническая геология, структурная геология
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PLATE — plate.ogg 1. pleıt n 1. 1> тарелка dinner soup plate - мелкая глубокая тарелка plate of soup of meat - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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