(n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
(n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
Example Sentences:
(1) Raising the minimum wage is the right way to begin closing the economic chasm between America's wealthy and regular working people.
(2) But recent high-level talks exposed the chasm that exists between Moscow and Tokyo.
(3) The following myths are discussed and refuted: (1) There is an insurmountable community-research chasm.
(4) It is the old right who are saying that they are ready to serve because they cannot bear the idea of letting go of the party machinery.” The resentment growing within the parliamentary party between those who will serve and those who will not has led to John Woodcock MP, chair of the Blairite group, Progress, to warn of the emergence of a new split to replace the Blair-Brown chasm that marked the last two decades of Labour politics.
(5) It was a superb team goal, showed Arsenal at their counterattacking best, and emphasised the chasm in class.
(6) In fact, the gender pay gap remains a yawning chasm.
(7) We chat about the maps I've seen so far; the abandoned sports stadium in StrikeZone, the wrecked cityscape in Chasm … How do these designs start?
(8) David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation said the figures were “yet another symptom of a very sick housing market that is carving ever-greater chasms between those who own a home and those who don’t”.
(9) The recent report on inequality in the UK by John Hills, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, charting how the rich-poor chasm has widened over the last 35 years, exposed the fact that every family in the top 10% now possesses at least 100 times more than any family in the bottom tenth.
(10) One Whitehall source said the tests set out by Carney had opened up a chasm between what was required for a currency union and the previously vague undertakings by the Scottish government to agreeing on borrowing limits and financial regulations.
(11) It was clearly more than just a half a century that separated the two events and two men; there was also a massive political chasm.
(12) Between fielding calls in another hectic day at the Connaught, Johnson says a change in mentality is needed to bridge the chasm between grand plans hatched in Washington, New York and London and the urgent needs on the ground.
(13) The moment when you jump across the ice chasm and slip, and someone catches you – there's a little bit of emotion in his face that says 'I've got your back'."
(14) "The chasm in price between a home inside the M25 and one in the country is at last no longer growing but canny buyers are seeing this and far more inquiries I receive are now from people wanting to cash in on the seemingly ludicrous value of their shoebox of a home and snap up a slice of country living."
(15) And quotas won't work if they reflect and reinforce the growing chasm between top and bottom earners in the UK today.
(16) Wednesday gave the lie to the idea that our young people are thoroughly post-ideological creatures, with no fight in them; if even the most fusty newspapers are worried about the chasm that separates the government from the so-called squeezed middle, you can bet that the politics of class may yet make an unexpected comeback.
(17) When it comes to unions, there is a chasm between the elite and popular attitudes.
(18) Youth services have worked hard over recent years to establish a rulebook for young offenders, designed to keep them away from the dangerous chasm of the adult justice system.
(19) Still, a familiar chasm emerged following a meeting to discuss the new health care amendment on Wednesday afternoon.
(20) The gap between players and officials – who expected the kind of deference paid to magistrates while not always paying close attention to the lines – became a chasm that proved the opposite of yawning.
Equality
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.
(n.) Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.
(n.) Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
(n.) Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does.
Example Sentences:
(1) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(5) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(6) A NYHA-class greater than II was observed in 18% of patients with type-I hypertrophy, in 29% with type II, but in 61% with type III (p less than or equal to 0.05).
(7) The effect of S-adenosylhomocysteine on DNA methylation was examined, and it was found at equal molar concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine to to S-adenosylmethionine that DNA methylation was competitively inhibited 50%.
(8) All five individuals appeared to have acute C. pneumoniae infection as determined by results of serologic tests (titers of IgM antibody for all individuals were greater than or equal to 1:16).
(9) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(10) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(11) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
(12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(13) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(14) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(15) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(16) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(17) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(18) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(19) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(20) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.