BharatNotes Mohorovicic
noun (proper noun; chiefly attributive, as in "Mohorovicic discontinuity")Usage in a UPSC answer
Just as the Mohorovicic discontinuity marks the hidden seismic boundary where the Earth's crust yields abruptly to a denser mantle, the transition from welfare populism to fiscal prudence in Indian budgeting is rarely visible on the surface yet decisively governs how shocks propagate through the wider economy.
Synonyms
Word Family
Mohorovicic discontinuity (n phrase), Moho (n abbrev), No standard derived forms
Root
Proper noun: named after Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić (1857–1936); entered scientific literature 1930s
Etymology
Named after Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovicic (1857-1936), who first identified this boundary in 1909 by studying seismic waves from a Zagreb earthquake; the term entered scientific literature in the 1930s.
Memory Hook
"MOHO" = the boundary where the crust says "no more" and the MOre-dense mantle begins; recall Mohorovicic as the man who heard the Earth's seismic waves "echo" (-vicic ~ "vich-itch") off this hidden floor.
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