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S: (n) crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap (a long narrow depression in a surface)

S: (n) chap (a crack in a lip caused usually by cold)
S: (n) chink (a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall)
S: (n) crevasse (a deep fissure)
S: (n) fatigue crack (a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue)
S: (n) fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other) "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
S: (n) rift (a narrow fissure in rock)
S: (n) slit (a narrow fissure)
S: (n) split (a lengthwise crack in wood) "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"
S: (n) vent, volcano (a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt)

S: (n) fissure ((anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes)