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a record's only language, spiraling one continuous valley from edge to silent center
means Marked or shaped with grooves — long narrow channels cut or worn into a surface — and, by extension, locked into a smooth, satisfying rhythm.
from From "groove," which comes through Dutch "groeve" (a furrow, trench, or pit) from a Germanic root tied to digging and ditches — a cousin of "grave." For centuries it meant a literal cut channel, like the track a wheel wears in stone. The musical sense "in the groove" arrived with the phonograph, whose needle rode a single spiraled valley; jazz slang then turned that physical groove into a feeling, so to be "grooved" became to settle perfectly into the rhythm.
- single spiral
- a vinyl groove is one unbroken line, not rings
- length
- unwound, a record's groove stretches over 1,500 feet
- width
- groove walls sit thinner than a human hair
- the pocket
- musicians chasing the groove are chasing locked rhythmic feel
- glaciers too
- ice carves grooves in bedrock visible for millennia
grooved seadragon — marine fish species with ridged body found in southern australian waters
grooved brain coral — coral species with parallel ridged pattern found in indo-pacific reefs