chasma

Etymology


From, from , from (possibly from ,  + , from ; or from ) +  (from ).

The obsolete “aurora” sense is from the fact that aurorae were thought to be rifts in the sky from which light shone through: see the 1822 quotation.

Noun

 * 1)  A long, narrow, steep-sided depression on a planet (often other than Earth), a moon, or another body in the Solar System.
 * 2)  An.
 * 1)  An.
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 * 1)  An.

Related terms

 * chasmatical
 * chasmatical
 * chasmatical

Translations

 * Catalan: chasma
 * French:
 * Galician: chasma
 * German: Chasma
 * Indonesian: chasma
 * Italian: chasma
 * Japanese: カズマ地形
 * Luxembourgish: chasma
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: chasma
 * Portuguese: chasma

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A chasm, abyss
 * 2) A kind of meteor