randkluft

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noun

The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.

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Meanings

nounrandkluft (plural randklufts)

plural randklufts

  1. geographyThe headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.

Origin

  1. GermanRandkluft
  2. Englishrandkluft

Borrowed from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”).

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randkluft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/randkluft

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“randkluft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/randkluft. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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