Crevasse
WordNet

noun


(1)   A deep fissure
WiktionaryText

Noun



  1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm.
  2. 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)
      [… H]e 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



  1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive form of crever
 
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