tectonic movement

1. 1.

   movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust

   Synonymscrustal movement

   Broadermovement

   geology

Questions about tectonic movement

What does tectonic movement mean?

tectonic movement means "movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust".

What is another word for tectonic movement?

Close synonyms include crustal movement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tectonic movement a common word?

tectonic movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.