- a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
- a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.
- any gap or opening.
- the coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
- a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.
- (esp in manuscripts) a break or gap where something is missing
- a break or interruption in continuity
- a break between adjacent vowels in the pronunciation of a word
- a natural opening or aperture; foramen
- anatomy a less common word for vulva
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