crustal plate

1. 1.

   a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

   Synonymsplate

   Broadercrust

Questions about crustal plate

What does crustal plate mean?

crustal plate means "a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly".

What is another word for crustal plate?

Close synonyms include plate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crustal plate a common word?

crustal plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.