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Crevice vs Perforation - What's the difference?

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Crevice is a related term of perforation.


As nouns the difference between crevice and perforation

is that crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall while perforation is the act of perforating or the state of being perforated.

As a verb crevice

is to crack; to flaw.

crevice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
  • * Tennyson
  • The mouse, / Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peered about.
  • * William Butler Yeats
  • I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and not a pocket, not a crevice , of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

    Verb

    (crevic)
  • To crack; to flaw.
  • (Webster 1913)

    perforation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia perforation) (en noun)
  • the act of perforating or the state of being perforated
  • any opening in a solid object
  • (medicine) an abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture
  • a series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts
  • (mathematics) that portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it
  • Derived terms

    * perforation gauge