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Hiatus   /haɪˈeɪtəs/   Listen
Hiatus

noun
(pl. L. hiatus, E. hiatuses)
1.
An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.  Synonyms: abatement, reprieve, respite, suspension.
2.
A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript).
3.
A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.  Synonym: foramen.



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"Hiatus" Quotes from Famous Books



... short distance we kept to the Newark road, but, without proceeding to that town, we deviated to the right, and made Northwestwardly, the purpose being to pass through a hiatus in the semicircle of rebel detached posts, turn the extremity of the main army, and approach Morristown—where Washington had his headquarters—from a side whence a British force from New York might ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens


Words linked to "Hiatus" :   break, Monro's foramen, remission, interventricular foramen, opening, remittal, interruption, defervescence, foramen of Monro, subsidence, piece, gap, hiatus hernia, foramen magnum


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