noun
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A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
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A breach in a canal or river bank.
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A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
Examples of crevasses in a Sentence
I had no rope and there were hidden crevasses ahead.
A peculiar feature of the stream is the uniformity of its volume throughout the year; the great crevasses in the lava bed through which it flows form natural spillways andcheck any tendency of the stream to rise within its banks.
A path marked by wands meanders over the glacier toward the tents avoiding the crevasses en route.
Be sure to set camp away from tiny cracks, those possibly hiding the mouths of large crevasses.
Nearer the coast, where the melting on the surface is more considerable, the wet snow freezes hard during the winter and is more or less transformed into ice, on the surface of which rivers and lakes are formed, the water of which, however, soon finds its way through crevasses and holes in the ice down to its under surface, and reaches the sea as a sub-glacial river.
Near its margin the surface of the inland ice is broken up by numerous large crevasses, formed by the outward motion of the glacier covering the underlying land.
No sooner is the object of alarm scented or seen than each one seeks safety in the most inaccessible situations, which are often reached by a series of astounding leaps over crevasses, up the faces of seemingly perpendicular rocks, or down the sides of equally precipitous chasms. The chamois will not hesitate, it is said, thus to leap down 20 or even 30 ft., and this it effects with apparent ease by throwing itself forward diagonally and striking its feet several times in its descent against the face of the rock.
When two pieces of flat glass are pressed together under mercury with moderate force they cohere, the mercury leaving the narrow crevasses, even although the alternative is a vacuum.
I could see all of the dangers of the gaping crevasses on the glacier very easily and could cross or walk around them easily.
You can follow Howard's adventures in the Antarctic, which will include camping overnight and exploring ice crevasses by reading his blog.
We crossed over several crevasses on snow bridges as the route joined the upper Emmons Glacier, leading up past our previous highest point.
There are a few, very small crevasses, which are crossed easily.
The soapy lather slipped down his face only very slowly, retained by the crevasses of age.