noun. A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break.

noun. A slight pause that occurs when two immediately adjacent vowels in consecutive syllables are pronounced, as in reality and naive.

noun. A separation, aperture, fissure, or short passage in an organ or body part.

noun. An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm.

noun. In anatomy, a foramen.

noun. In grammar and prosody, the coming together of two vowels without intervening consonant in successive words or syllables of one word.

noun. A space from which something requisite to completeness is absent, as a missing link in a genealogy, an interval of unknown history, a lost or erased part of a manuscript, etc.; a lacuna; a break.

noun. Specifically, in logic, a fault of demonstration, consisting in the omission to prove some premise made use of, and not self-evident or admitted.

noun. An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

noun. The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

noun. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.

noun. An interruption, break or pause.

noun. A vacation, break from work.

noun. A gap in geological strata.

noun. An opening in an organ.

noun. a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)

noun. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

noun. a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure