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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chasm \Chasm\, noun [L. chasma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to grape, 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.
That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. --Coleridge.
2. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chasm
noun: 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)
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