"dying gasp" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "The last breath taken before death."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "the last breath taken before death",
          "word": "tuamatangi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "the last breath taken before death",
          "word": "manawa kiore"
        }
      ]
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          "ref": "1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar, page 13",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The last moments, or final period, of something that becomes obsolete or inactive."
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        "(figurative) The last moments, or final period, of something that becomes obsolete or inactive."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dying gasp"
}

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "The last breath taken before death."
      ],
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          "breath",
          "breath"
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          "death",
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          "ref": "1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar, page 13",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The last moments, or final period, of something that becomes obsolete or inactive."
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        "(figurative) The last moments, or final period, of something that becomes obsolete or inactive."
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the last breath taken before death",
      "word": "tuamatangi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the last breath taken before death",
      "word": "manawa kiore"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dying gasp"
}