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the gap too small to matter and too stubborn to ignore.
means A narrow crack or fissure, especially in rock or another hard surface.
from From Old French 'crevace,' from the verb 'crever,' to burst or split, which traces back to Latin 'crepare,' meaning to crack, creak, or break with a sound — the same root that, through other doors, gave us 'crepitate' and the 'crevasse' that swallows glacier-walkers. So a crevice is, at heart, the silent record of something that once cracked open.
- crevice life
- Whole ecosystems thrive in cliff cracks called chasmophytes.
- word root
- From Latin crepare, meaning to crack or burst.
- deep sea
- Cracks on the seafloor feed life with hot chemicals.
- skin folds
- Body crevices host their own bacterial neighborhoods.
- climbing
- Crack climbers wedge hands into crevices to ascend.
great blue hole — underwater sinkhole in belize, 984 feet diameter, formed by collapsed limestone cavern
moeraki boulders — giant spherical rock formations in new zealand with deep crevices, split by 150 million years of weathering
the needles eye rock — natural rock arch in wyoming with narrow crevice passage, formed by erosion through granite