escarpment
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12escarpment — noun Etymology: French escarpement, from escarper to scarp, from Middle French, from escarpe scarp, from Old Italian scarpa more at scarp Date: circa 1802 1. a steep slope in front of a fortification 2. a long cliff or steep slope separating two… …
13escarpment — /i skahrp meuhnt/, n. 1. Geol. a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth s crust. Cf. scarp1 (def. 1). 2. ground cut into an escarp around a fortification or defensive… …
14escarpment — noun A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach …
15escarpment — an elongated, steep slope at the edge of an upland area such as a plateau or cuesta …
16escarpment — A steep slope, often the result of faulting [16] …
17escarpment — Synonyms and related words: abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bluff, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval de frise, circumvallation, cliff …
18escarpment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cliff (see height). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. slope, cliff, ledge; see hill , mountain 1 , rock 2 …
19escarpment — e|scarp|ment [ıˈska:pmənt US a:r ] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: escarp slope (17 21 centuries), from French escarpe, from Italian scarpa] a high steep slope or cliff between two levels on a hill or mountain …
20escarpment — es|carp|ment [ ı skarpmənt ] noun count a steep slope that forms the edge of a long area of high land …
