crevasse.
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
Meaning & usage
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
A breach in a canal or river bank.
Any cleft or fissure.
A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
Where this word comes from
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
To form crevasses.
To fissure with crevasses.
Where this word comes from
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
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