crevasse

plural crevasses

1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
2. USA breach in a canal or river bank.
3. broadlyAny 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.

   2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found, page 111

4. figurativelyA 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.

   1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)

present singular third person crevasses · participle present crevassing · participle past crevassed · past crevassed

1. intransitiveTo form crevasses.
2. transitiveTo fissure with crevasses.