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A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm. / (US) A breach in a canal or river bank. / (by extension) Any cleft or fissure.

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crevasse

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Source Word

crevasse

US broadly figuratively

A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm. / (US) A breach in a canal or river bank. / (by extension) Any cleft or fissure.

Japanese Meaning

氷河や雪原に見られる大きな亀裂、割れ目 / 深い割れ目や溝、裂け目 / （米国用法）運河や河川の土手における破損部分、崩壊部分

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The mountaineer peered into the crevasse, searching for a safe route across the glacier.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

登山者は氷河の裂け目を覗き込み、氷原を渡る安全なルートを探した。

Sense（1）

A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.

Sense（2）

(US) A breach in a canal or river bank.

Sense（3）

(by extension) Any cleft or fissure.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

(figuratively) 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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

crevasses

（ plural ）

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