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Meaning
Noun
●
A
crack
or
fissure
in a
glacier
or
snowfield
; a chasm.
●
In American English:
A
breach
in a
canal
or
river
bank.
●
Any
cleft
or fissure.
●
A
discontinuity
or “gap” between the
accounted
variables
and an
observed
outcome.
Verb
●
To form crevasses.
●
To
fissure
with crevasses.
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Origin
crevasse
English
crevasse
French
crevace
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
-asse
French
crever
French
crepare
Latin
crever
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Sourced from
Etym
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Rhymes
Gas
Ass
Wass
Mass
Pass
Sass
Lass
Asse
Alas
Crass
Grass
Frass
Brass
Class
Glass
Trass
Harass
Wrasse
Ratass
Morass
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