ASPERITY
asperity
Noun
- Roughness as of stone or weather.
- asperity of Maine's winter
- Harshness, as of temper.
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
- A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
- Earthquakes begin and end at asperities.
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