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• massif — Massif, [mass]ive. adj. Qui est gros, solide & pesant. Il se dit particulierement des bastiments & des meubles qui sont de bois ou de metal. Ce bastiment est trop massif. une grosse tour massive. je ne veux pas de la vaisselle si massive, des… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

• massif — massif, ive [ masif, iv ] adj. et n. m. • 1480; massis 1180; de 1. masse I ♦ Adj. 1 ♦ Dont la masse occupe tout le volume apparent; qui n est pas creux (⇒ plein), qui n est pas un revêtement. Bijou en or massif. Porte en chêne massif. Roche… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• massif — [ma sēf′, mas′if] n. [Fr, lit., solid: see MASSIVE] Geol. 1. mountainous mass broken up into separate peaks and forming the backbone of a mountain range 2. a large block of the earth s crust that is isolated by boundary faults and has shifted as… …   English World dictionary

• Massif — This article is about a geological formation. For the Valgrind tool, see Valgrind. The Face on Mars. In geology, a massif is a section of a planet s crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to… …   Wikipedia

• massif — noun Etymology: French, from massif, adjective, from Middle French, alteration of Old French massiz Date: 1873 1. a principal mountain mass 2. a block of the earth s crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• massif — noun a) A principal mountain mass. b) A block of the earths crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists …   Wiktionary

• Zomba Massif — ▪ rock formation, Malaŵi       isolated mass of syenite (igneous rock composed chiefly of feldspar) rising from the Shire Highlands, southern Malaŵi. Occupying an area of about 50 square miles (130 square km), it reaches an elevation of 6,846… …   Universalium

• France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …   Universalium

• Europe — /yoor euhp, yerr / for 1; /yoo roh pee, yeuh / for 2, n. 1. a continent in the W part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains on the E and the Caucasus Mountains and the Black and… …   Universalium

• Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …   Universalium

• Nevado del Ruiz — La Mesa de Herveo Steam on the mountain in July 2007 Elevation …   Wikipedia