Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chasm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chasm \Chasm\, n. [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) 1.7 (wn)
chasm
n : a deep opening in the earth's surface
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