Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

continental plate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables: con-ti-nen-tal -plate
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large, thick, and relatively low-density slab of the Earth's solid lithosphere that carries continents and acts as part of the broken outer shell floating on the semifluid mantle.

Example Sentences

"Warping of the continental plate created fissures and fractures in the Roraima sandstone plateaus."

Inflected Forms

continental plates (plural)

Questions

What does continental plate mean?: A large, thick, and relatively low-density slab of the Earth's solid lithosphere that carries continents and acts as part of the broken outer shell floating on the semifluid mantle.

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