crevice

n.
A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.

[Middle English, from Old French crevace, probably from Vulgar Latin *crepācia, from *crepa, from Latin crepāre, to crack.]

creviced crev'iced adj.

noun

A usually narrow partial opening caused by splitting and rupture: break, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, fissure, rift, split. See open/close.

n

A narrow opening caused by a fissure or a crack.

A fissure.

• gingival c. — the space between the cervical enamel of a tooth and the overlying unattached gingiva.

IN BRIEF: A small opening caused by a crack.

The climber was able to fit her toe into the crevice to take the next step up the wall.

Tutor's tip: There could be a "crevice" (small crack in places like walls or rocks) in the side of a "crevasse" (major crack in large ice formations or in the earth's surface).

Dansk (Danish)
n. - klippespalte, sprække

Nederlands (Dutch)
scheur

Français (French)
n. - fissure, crevasse, lézarde

Deutsch (German)
n. - Spalt

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ρωγμή, σχισμή (βράχου κ.λπ.)

Italiano (Italian)
crepa, fessura

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fenda (f)

Русский (Russian)
щель

Español (Spanish)
n. - grieta, hendedura

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - spricka, rämna

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
裂缝

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 裂縫

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 갈라진 틈

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 割れ目

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شق ضيق في صخرة أو جدار‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בקיע צר, סדק‬

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