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The edge where everything important happens, because nothing interesting lives in the middle.
means The outer edge or border of something circular or hollow, like a cup, wheel, or basin.
from From Old English 'rima,' meaning border or edge, as in 'sǣrima' (seashore) — literally the 'sea-rim' where land meets water. It has Germanic cousins, like the Old Norse 'rimi' (a raised strip of land), and stayed close to home: the word for 'edge' has barely budged in a thousand years.
- basketball origin
- Early hoops had no holes, requiring ladder retrievals after scores
- glass design
- Wine glass rims thin deliberately to ease flavor delivery
- canyon meaning
- The Grand Canyon's North and South rims differ wildly in climate
- pacific ring
- The Pacific Rim hosts most of Earth's active volcanoes
- crater rims
- Impact crater rims rise from displaced, upthrust ground
grand canyon rim — the edge of the canyon in arizona, 1.6km deep, attracts 4+ million visitors yearly
crater lake rim — the caldera edge in oregon, formed 7,700 years ago, rises 2,000 feet above the deepest crater lake in the us
nba rim — the basketball hoop used in every professional game since the nba's founding in 1946, 10 feet high