Etymology
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From Latin chasma, from Ancient Greek χάσμα (khásma, “abyss, cleft”).
Pronunciation
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chasm (plural chasms)
- (geology, planetology) A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 1:But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]
- (by extension) A large difference of opinion.
2024 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport[1]:Chelsea may not have regarded themselves as title rivals to City over the whole season but this was a harrowing illustration of the current chasm between the two sides and made for disturbing viewing for the Italian.
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- chasma (“long, narrow, steep-sided depression on a body in the solar system”)
Translations
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gap
- Arabic: فَجْوَة f (fajwa)
- Bulgarian: пропаст (bg) f (propast), бездна (bg) f (bezdna)
- Catalan: avenc (ca) m
- Czech: propast (cs) f
- Dutch: kloof (nl) f, afgrond (nl) m
- Finnish: kuilu (fi), rotko (fi)
- French: chasme (fr) f, crevasse (fr) f, fossé (fr) m, gouffre (fr) m
- German: Abgrund (de) m, Kluft (de) f, Spalte (de) f
- Greek: χάσμα (el) n (chásma)
- Ancient: χάσμα n (khásma)
- Icelandic: gjá (is) f
- Indonesian: jurang (id)
- Irish: gáibéal m, anscoilt f, duibheagán m
- Italian: voragine (it) f, baratro (it) m, abisso (it) m
- Japanese: 渓壑 (けいがく, keigaku)
- Javanese: jurang (jv), curah
- Latin: chasma n, barāthrum n
- Maori: tawhā
- Ottoman Turkish: دریڭلك (deriñlik)
- Plautdietsch: Kjäajel m
- Portuguese: abismo (pt) m
- Russian: бе́здна (ru) f (bézdna), про́пасть (ru) f (própastʹ), рассе́лина (ru) f (rassélina), расще́лина (ru) f (rasščélina)
- Sanskrit: पर्शान (sa) m (parśāna)
- Serbo-Croatian: provalija (sh) f
- Slovak: roklina f, rokľa (sk) f, prepadlisko n, priepasť f
- Spanish: garganta (es) f, cañón (es) m, barranco (es) m, barranca f, sima (es) f, abismo (es) m
- Swedish: svalg (sv) n
- Telugu: అగాధం (te) (agādhaṁ)
- Turkish: derin yarık (tr), kanyon (tr), uçurum (tr)
- Ukrainian: прі́рва f (prírva), безо́дня (uk) f (bezódnja)
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difference of opinion
- Arabic: فَجْوَة f (fajwa)
- Czech: rozkol m, nesoulad m
- Dutch: kloof (nl) f, meningsverschil (nl) n
- Finnish: kuilu (fi)
- French: fossé (fr) m, divergence (fr) f
- German: Kluft (de) f
- Greek: χάσμα (el) n (chásma), ρήγμα (el) n (rígma), σχίσμα (el) n (schísma), διάσπαση (el) f (diáspasi)
- Irish: deighilt f, scaradh m, briseadh (idir beirt) m
- Italian: divergenza (it) f, divario (it) m
- Portuguese: abismo (pt) m, cisma (pt) m
- Russian: разногла́сия (ru) n pl (raznoglásija), раско́л (ru) m (raskól)
- Spanish: disensión (es) f
- Swedish: klyfta (sv), schism (sv)
- Telugu: అగాధం (te) (agādhaṁ)
- Turkish: uçurum (tr)
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