Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge.
- n. A sudden interruption of continuity; a gap.
- n. A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a cleft; a fissure; a gap; especially, a wide and deep cleft.
- n. Hence An interruption; a hiatus; any marked breach of continuity.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
- n. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a deep opening in the earth's surface
Etymologies
- Latin chasma, from Greek khasma.
Examples
“He's getting it in the neck for mispronouncing the word "chasm" on the radio.”
“And furthermore, that "30 percentage point chasm" is obviously meaningless since there is no base unit for the test scores; a different normalisation could make it into a 0.3 point gap or a 99 point gap.”
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“The alley below is a thin chasm of darkness patched by windows to the left, a neon sign at the corner, sliced for a second as a sword of light sweeps the rain.”
“The biggest chasm is no longer between early adopters and mainstream users.”
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“Fraser Kelton of Adaptive Blue said, The biggest chasm is no longer between early adopters and mainstream users.”
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“Now, economic worries are rising fastest in households with smaller paychecks, and that chasm is widening.”
“The chasm is cost of living in Mexico is just as broad as that between Arkansas and New York City.”
“Vulcani, sive apertura ignis; in other words a chasm of fire.”
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“The chasm was a good fifteen meters across, a leap that would test Data's ability on dry ground.”
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“On one side of the chasm was the America my parents lived in.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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The Heart's Parts
blood, atrium, aorta, ventricle, papillary muscles, valve, artery, vena cava, septum, circumflex, coronary, endocardium and 11 more...
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Ends in "-sm" but isn't an "ism"
pleonasm, prism, schism, orgasm, spasm, iconoclasm, chasm, enthusiasm, phantasm, ectoplasm, cytoplasm, aneurysm and 55 more...
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Beautiful words
Self-explanatory.
plural, melancholy, mother, euphemism, plea, violin, chaos, chasm, soliloquy, air, listen, liopleurodon and 23 more...
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