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crevasse

See also: crevice and crévasse

English

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Etymology

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From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crevasse (plural crevasses)

  1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
  2. (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
  3. (by extension) Any cleft or fissure.
    • 2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found, page 111:
      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.
  4. (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.

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Verb

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crevasse (third-person singular simple present crevasses, present participle crevassing, simple past and past participle crevassed)

  1. (intransitive) To form crevasses.
  2. (transitive) To fissure with crevasses.

French

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Etymology 1

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From Old French crevace, crever +‎ -asse.

Noun

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crevasse f (plural crevasses)

  1. crevasse

Etymology 2

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Inflected forms

Verb

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crevasse

  1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of crever

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: cre‧vas‧se

Noun

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crevasse f (plural crevasses)

  1. (glaciology) crevasse (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field)
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