The Clue
Tectonic (10 letter answer)
The Answer
STRUCTURAL
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Notes
The answer STRUCTURAL is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
STRUCTURAL as an adjective:
1. relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; "structural unemployment in a technological society"
2. relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"
3. affecting or involved in structure or construction; "the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements"; "structural damage"
4. concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
5. (geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structural) = pertaining to geological structure; "geomorphological features of the Black Hills"; "morphological features of granite"; "structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface"
6. (morphologic, morphological, structural) = relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences"