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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dying gasp en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The last breath taken before death.
  2. (figuratively) The last moments, or final period, of something that becomes obsolete or inactive.
    • To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work. 1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar, page 13:

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Translations (3)

es boqueada (the last breath taken before death) · mi manawa kiore (the last breath taken before death) · mi tuamatangi (the last breath taken before death)