glacis (plural glacises or glacis)
(military) A gentle incline in front of a fortification.
(military) The angled armour plate on the front of a tank; glacis plate.
(geomorphology) An erosional or depositional landform, with little slope.
(postal service) A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface.
Glacis
An administrative district in Seychelles
Source: Wiktionary
Gla"cis, n. Etym: [F. glacis; -- so named from its smoothness. See Glacier.]
Definition: A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
