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English
Noun
tectonic plate (plural tectonic plates)
- (geology) Any of several large pieces of the Earth's lithosphere which participate in plate tectonics.
Translations
large piece of Earth's lithosphere
- Arabic: صَفِيحَةٌ تِكْتُونِيَّة f (ṣafīḥatun tiktūniyya)
- Catalan: placa tectònica f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 板塊 / 板块 (zh) (bǎnkuài)
- Czech: litosférická deska f, tektonická deska f
- Dutch: tektonische plaat f
- Finnish: mannerlaatta (fi), tektoninen laatta
- French: plaque tectonique (fr) f
- Galician: placa tectónica f
- Georgian: ტექტონიკური ფილა (ṭekṭoniḳuri pila)
- German: Platte (de) f, tektonische Platte f
- Greek: τεκτονική πλάκα f (tektonikí pláka)
- Hungarian: kőzetlemez (hu)
- Icelandic: landfleki m
- Indonesian: lempeng tektonik
- Japanese: 地殻プレート (chikaku-purēto)
- Malay: pelet (ms)
- Maori: papaneke, papanuku
- Norwegian: plate (no) m or f
- Polish: płyta tektoniczna f, płyta litosfery f
- Portuguese: placa tectónica (pt) f (Portugal), placa tectônica (pt) f (Brazil), placa (pt) f
- Russian: тектони́ческая плита́ f (tektoníčeskaja plitá), литосфе́рная плита́ f (litosférnaja plitá), плита́ (ru) f (plitá)
- Slovak: kryha f
- Spanish: placa tectónica f
- Swedish: kontinentalplatta (sv) c
- Ukrainian: тектоні́чна плита́ f (tektoníčna plytá), літосфе́рна плита́ f (litosférna plytá), плита́ (uk) f (plytá)
- Welsh: plat tectonig m
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