Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge.
- noun A sudden interruption of continuity; a gap.
- noun A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun Hence An interruption; a hiatus; any marked breach of continuity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
- noun A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
deep ,steep -sided rift ,gap orfissure ; agorge orabyss - noun by extension A large
difference ofopinion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deep opening in the earth's surface
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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He's getting it in the neck for mispronouncing the word "chasm" on the radio.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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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.
Giles and Stereotype Accuracy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Now, economic worries are rising fastest in households with smaller paychecks, and that chasm is widening.
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The biggest chasm is no longer between early adopters and mainstream users.
How Many Web Services Can One Person Use? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Now, economic worries are rising fastest in households with smaller paychecks, and that chasm is widening.
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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.
Escape From Hell! Hal Duncan 2008
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Fraser Kelton of Adaptive Blue said, The biggest chasm is no longer between early adopters and mainstream users.
How Many Web Services Can One Person Use? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-11-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The biggest chasm is no longer between early adopters and mainstream users.
How Many Web Services Can One Person Use? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The chasm is cost of living in Mexico is just as broad as that between Arkansas and New York City.
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