crevasse
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɹəˈvæs/
crevasse (plural crevasses)
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
- (figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- […] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- French: crevasse
- German: Gletscherspalte
- Italian: crepaccio
- Portuguese: crevasse
- Russian: тре́щина
crevasse (crevasses, present participle crevassing; past and past participle crevassed)
- (intransitive) To form crevasses.
- (transitive) To fissure with crevasses.
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