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continental drift

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The movement, formation, or re-formation of continents described by the theory of plate tectonics.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • the movements of continents relative to each other across the Earth's surface; see plate tectonics.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun geology The slow movement of continents explained by plate tectonics.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics)

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