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Weisshorn

noun
1.
A mountain in the Alps in Switzerland (14,804 feet high).





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"Weisshorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... distance there was a group of white, unequal, flat, or pointed mountain summits, which glistened in the sun; the Mischabel with its two peaks, the huge group of the Weisshorn, the heavy Brunegghorn, the lofty and formidable pyramid of Mount Cervin, that slayer of men, and the Dent-Blanche, ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... long as the rocks which compose them can fall to a lower level, they possess potential energy, which is converted into actual when the frost ruptures their cohesion and hands them over to the action of gravity. The stone avalanches of the Matterhorn and Weisshorn are illustrations in point. The hammer of the great bell of Westminster, when raised before striking, possesses potential energy; when it falls, the energy becomes dynamic; and after the stroke, we have the rhythmic ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall


Words linked to "Weisshorn" :   Schweiz, the Alps, Swiss Confederation, Svizzera, Switzerland, Suisse, Alps, mountain peak


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