sérac

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  1. A name current in the Swiss Alps, and commonly used by writers in English on the glaciers of that region, to designate the grand cuboidal or parallelepipedal masses into which the névé breaks in passing down a steep incline, in consequence of the intersection of the transverse and longitudinal crevasses to which the descent gives rise.

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  1. Swiss F. sérac, serac (De Saussure), properly a kind of cheese put up in cubic or parallelepipedal lumps.
 

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