crevasse

/kɹəˈvæs/

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    A breach in a canal or river bank.

  3. 3

    A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.

verb

  1. 1

    To form crevasses.

  2. 2

    To fissure with crevasses.

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