Material and Tectonic

Material

Material adjective - Having great meaning or lasting effect.
Usage example: there's no material difference between the two designs for the skyscraper: one's as bad as the other

Tectonic and material are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tectonic" instead an adjective "Material".

Tectonic

Tectonic adjective - Having great meaning or lasting effect.
Usage example: a tectonic shift in societal trends occurred in the 1960s

Material and tectonic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Material" instead an adjective "Tectonic".

Nearby Word: tectonics

Both words in one sentence

  • In a lie-to-high-school-students, the convection cells in the mantle do bring hot material to the crust and cause things like hot plumes (like the one that created the Hawaiian Islands), but they don't account for the movement of the tectonic plates as they spread out, cool, and sink.
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