Crevice vs. Crevasse — What's the Difference?

A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.

A crevasse is a deep crack, crevice or fissure found in an ice sheet or glacier, or earth. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rates of movement.

A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

A deep fissure, as in a glacier; a chasm.

To crack; to flaw.

A crack or breach in a dike or levee.

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

To develop or cause to develop crevasses.

To crack; to flaw.

A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.

A long narrow depression in a surface

(US) A breach in a canal or river bank.

A long narrow opening

(by extension) Any cleft or fissure.

(figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.

(intransitive) To form crevasses.

(transitive) To fissure with crevasses.

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.

A deep fissure