crevasse

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
 * 2)  A breach in a canal or river bank.
 * 3)  Any cleft or fissure.
 * 4)  A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
 * 5) * 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
 * 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.
 * 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.

Translations

 * Aragonese: crepaza, crebaza
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: glaĉerfendo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: jurang es
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: кланец
 * Maori: pokorua
 * Norwegian:, isbre
 * Portuguese: crevasse
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: isspricka

Verb

 * 1)  To form crevasses.
 * 2)  To fissure with crevasses.

Etymology 1
From,.

Etymology 2
Inflected forms

Noun

 * 1)   a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field