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the small dip that quietly rewrites an object's biography.
means a depression left in a surface where force pushed in but didn't break through.
from from middle english dent, a variant of dint, meaning a blow or stroke — before it meant the mark, it meant the hit that made it.
metal memorymetal dents because it deforms plastically, permanently, unlike rubber.
idiom shiftbarely dent means almost no progress, curiously.
dent vs cracka dent absorbs energy; a crack releases it violently.