Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle;
- Example: "the Mohorovicic discontinuity averages 5 miles down under oceans and 20 miles down under continents"[syn: Mohorovicic discontinuity, Moho]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mohorovicic discontinuity \Mohorovicic discontinuity\, n.
(Geol.)
same as 2nd Moho.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Mohorovicic discontinuity
n 1: the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying
mantle; "the Mohorovicic discontinuity averages 5 miles
down under oceans and 20 miles down under continents" [syn:
Mohorovicic discontinuity, Moho]