escarpment

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈskɑːp.mənt/    美 /ɪˈskɑɹp.mənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — After the canyons, the most remarkable features of the country are the long lines of cliffs. These are bold escarpments scores or hundreds of miles in length,—great geographic steps, often hundreds or thousands of feet in altitude, presenting steep faces of rock, often vertical.

词形变化

escarpments plural

词源

Borrowed from French escarpement. By surface analysis, escarp + -ment.
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