Hiatus

ahd-5
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_"
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