névé
/neɪˈveɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges."
- "Haast's 1864 paper does not explain exactly why the glaciers should have come and gone as they did, but it appears that he believed that the onset of glaciation was due to the formation of his "high, plateau-like" range of mountains, acting as a moisture trap, with consequent névé accumulation on a grand scale."
- "The rate of snow-névé accumulation may change many times during the glacier lifetime due to changes in climatic conditions or other factors. Calculations show that the glacier responds fairly quickly to such changes."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Geology.