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randkluft

randkluft 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.

Noun

randkluft (plural randklufts)

  1. 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.

Forms of randkluft

pluralrandklufts

Origin of randkluft

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

Questions about randkluft

What does randkluft mean?
Randkluft means 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.
What part of speech is randkluft?
Randkluft is a noun.
What is the plural of randkluft?
The plural of randkluft is randklufts.

Words near randkluft in the dictionary

  1. randirs
  2. randistirion
  3. Randite
  4. RANDites
  5. randivoose
  6. randkluft
  7. randklufts
  8. Randlay
  9. Randle
  10. randle-balk
  11. randle-balks

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