crevasse
verb
- fissure within a crevasse
noun
- deep crack, or fracture, found in an ice sheet or glacier
- fissure within a crevasse
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kɹəˈvæs/
noun
Etymology: From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- A breach in a canal or river bank.
- Any cleft or fissure.
“I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.”
- A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
“[…] 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.”
verb
Etymology: From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
- To form crevasses.
- To fissure with crevasses.