Massif Definition

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massifs
noun
A mountainous mass broken up into separate peaks and forming the backbone of a mountain range.
Webster's New World
A large block of the earth's crust that is isolated by boundary faults and has shifted as a unit.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Massif

Noun

Singular:
massif
Plural:
massifs

Origin of Massif

  • French massive, massif from Old French massive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 1885 French, massif, adjective, from Middle French

    From Wiktionary

Massif Sentence Examples

  • The apex is occupied by a massif of crystalline rocks.

  • The northern part (Czech Cesky Les) attains in the massif of Czerkov an altitude of 3300 ft., but the southern part (Czech Sumava) is at the same time the highest and the most picturesque part of the range, including on the Bohemian side the Osser (4053 ft.) and the Plockenstein (45 1 3 ft.), although the highest peak, the Arber (4872), is in Bavaria.

  • A syenite massif of this age occurs at Mittagong; and leucite has been discovered in Carboniferous basalts by David.

  • These two channels carry the rush of mountain streams from the western slopes of the massif right across the axis of the mountains and through the intervening barrier of minor ridges to the plains of the Indus.

  • The cordilleras, divided into two great parallel chains, with flanking ranges and spurs to the east, reach their greatest breadth at this point and form the massif of the Andean system.

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