Crevasse

Definitions

1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
2. A breach in a canal or river bank.
   US
3. Any cleft or fissure.
   broadly
4. A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
   figuratively

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Examples

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

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