chasm vs crevasse

chasm

• A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss. 

• A large difference of opinion. 

crevasse

• A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm. 

• A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome. 

• A breach in a canal or river bank. 

• Any cleft or fissure. 

• To fissure with crevasses. 

• To form crevasses.