earth's crust

Questions about earth's crust

What does earth's crust mean?

earth's crust means "the outer layer of the Earth".

What is another word for earth's crust?

Close synonyms include crust. 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 earth's crust a common word?

earth's crust 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.