English Dictionary

crevasse

noun

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.

The mountaineers carefully crossed the crevasse in the glacier.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

(by extension) Any cleft or fissure.

I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.

意味（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.