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nappe

  [nap]
–noun
1. Geology. a large mass of rock thrust a considerable distance along a nearly horizontal fault plane or in an overturned anticlinal fold.
2. Geometry. one of the two equal sections of a cone.
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Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; < F: lit., tablecloth, cloth; OF nappe, nape < L mappa; cf. napkin
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nappe   (nāp)   
n.  

  1. A sheet of water flowing over a dam or similar structure.

  2. Geology A large sheetlike body of rock that has been moved far from its original position.

  3. Mathematics Either of the two parts into which a cone is divided by the vertex.


[French, tablecloth, nappe, from Old French, tablecloth, from Latin mappa, napkin; see map.]
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