ESCARPMENT

[ɪs`kɑːpmənt]

эскарп

escarpment: translation

abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bluff, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cliff, contravallation, counterscarp, crag, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, face, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, palisades, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, precipice, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scar, scarp, sconce, steep, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, work

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• абразионный берег

• вертикальное обнажение породы

• крутой откос

• линия утесов или обрывистых холмов, образованных эрозией

1) откос, крутость

2) воен. эскарп

3) геол. вертикальное обнажение породы

escarpment [ɪˊskɑ:pmənt] n

1) круто́й отко́с

2) воен. эска́рп

escarpment: translation

  an elongated, steep slope at the edge of an upland area such as a plateau or cuesta.

escarpment: translation

   A steep slope, often the result of faulting [16].

1) эскарп