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aesthenosphere

aesthenosphere is the alternative spelling of asthenosphere.

Meaning of asthenosphere

Noun

asthenosphere (plural asthenospheres)

  1. A portion of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.
    • Holonyms: upper mantle, outer mantle < mantle < Earth

Forms of aesthenosphere

pluralaesthenospheres

Questions about aesthenosphere

What is aesthenosphere the alternative spelling of?
Aesthenosphere is the alternative spelling of asthenosphere.

Words near aesthenosphere in the dictionary

  1. Aesoplike
  2. Aesops
  3. AEST
  4. aesthenopia
  5. aesthenopic
  6. aesthenosphere
  7. aesthenospheres
  8. aesthenospheric
  9. aestheses
  10. aesthesia
  11. aesthesias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aesthenosphere (page history and authors); asthenosphere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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