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The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. Carson Daly
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. Simon Winchester
Firstly, studying earthquake history (e.g. historical and instrumental catalogs citation of seismicity) and tectonics citation to assess the earthquakes that could occur in a region and their characteristics and frequency of occurrence. Source: Internet
Concepts close to the elements now incorporated in plate tectonics were proposed by geophysicists and geologists (both fixists and mobilists) like Vening-Meinesz, Holmes, and Umbgrove. Source: Internet
Evidence shows that tectonics have caused rivers to shift course suddenly and dramatically. Source: Internet
Geologists' embrace of plate tectonics became part of a broadening of the field from a study of rocks into a study of the Earth as a planet. Source: Internet