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dying gasp

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dying gasp

noun dying gasps

  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 s

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noun the last breath taken before death

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@misc{dying_gasp_2026,
  title = {dying gasp},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dying%20gasp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}