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nappe (n

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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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