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noun
A tunnel driven through a pass at fairly high altitude to minimize the length of tunnel required, at the cost of requiring steeper and more winding routes up to each end of the tunnel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: civil-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, transport
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