massif

IPA: mæsˈif

noun

  • A principal mountain mass.
  • A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists
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Examples of "massif" in Sentences

  • The massif is the largest Swiss autochthonic crystalline entity.
  • Eight people died digging the tunnel a mile-and-a-half below the Gotthard massif.
  • The buildings spread out over the hills which scaled the limestone high massif that dominates the city.
  • From Samarkand the king struck north to the Jaxartes, like the Oxus a major river running from the great Himalayan massif to the Aral Sea.
  • Towards the northern extremity of the range occur a group of peaks, which together form an oblong block or "massif" amongst the neighbouring ridges known as
  • The wreckage of a plane had been found in the fabled Mountains of the Moon, also known as the Rwenzori massif, which is between the two towns and shared by the DRC and Uganda.
  • But: What was exceptional is that precisely a protruding 'massif' of a hog was dancing in the innersanctum sanctorumof the museum, a great and stupendously rotund animal was actually attempting to, or so it seemed to Wong, preform a pirouette in the manner of one of Degas 'whores.

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