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noun, plural hi·a·tus·es, hi·a·tus.

1.a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

 

2.a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.

 

3.any gap or opening.

 

4.Grammar, Prosody . 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.

 

5.Anatomy . a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.

 

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