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chap
a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
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chink
a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
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crevasse
a deep fissure
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fatigue crack
a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue
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break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
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rift
a narrow fissure in rock
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slit
a narrow fissure
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split
a lengthwise crack in wood
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vent, volcano
a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
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inclined fault
a geological fault in which one side is above the other
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strike-slip fault
a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally
