movement vs tectonic movement

tectonic movement vs movement

movement and tectonic movement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
movement	Yes	No	No	No
tectonic movement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tectonic movement is a hyponym of movement; that is, tectonic movement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:

movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
tectonic movement: movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust

Other hyponyms of movement include crustal movement, approach, approaching, passage, passing, deflection, deflexion, bend, bending, change of location, travel, undulation, wave, jitter, periodic motion, periodic movement, heave, backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion, kick, recoil, seek, squeeze, wring, cam stroke, stroke, throw, turn, turning, twist, wrench, undulation, moving ridge, wave, wobble, commotion, whirl, Brownian motion, Brownian movement, pedesis, decelerated motion, motion with variable acceleration.

movement (noun)	tectonic movement (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust
the act of changing the location of something
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
the act of changing location from one place to another
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation

Difference between movement and tectonic movement

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