Chasm

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chasm \Chasm\ (k[a^]z'm), n. [L. chasma, Gr. cha`sma, fr.
     chai`nein to gape, to open wide. See {Chaos}.]
     1. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the
        earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
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              That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the
              green hill.                           --Coleridge.
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     2. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
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              Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought.
                                                    --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chasm
       n : a deep opening in the earth's surface

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "chasm":
     abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, blank, box canyon, breach, break,
     broaching, canyon, cavity, chap, check, chimney, chink, clearing,
     cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir,
     crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile,
     dell, depth, dig, diggings, dike, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw,
     excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flume,
     fontanel, foramen, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge,
     groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision, inlet,
     interval, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak, mine, moat,
     notch, nullah, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, overlook,
     oversight, pass, passage, passageway, pit, pore, preterition,
     quarry, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shaft,
     skip, slit, slot, space, split, stoma, throwing open, trench,
     uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, wadi, well, workings, yawn,
     yawning abyss
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CHASM
       
          CHeap ASseMbler.
       
          A {shareware} {assembler} for {MS-DOS}.
       
          (1994-11-15)