scissure - a long narrow openingchap - a crack in a lip caused usually by cold chink - a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall geological fault, fault, fracture, break, shift - (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" opening, gap - an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall" rift - a narrow fissure in rock split - a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log" volcano, vent - a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt |