hiaat — meaning in English

English meaning

• hiatus noun A gap or interruption in something that would otherwise be continuous.

Senses

hiaat is used for these senses in English:

• hiatus A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
• hiatus An interruption, break, pause or absence.
• hiatus (prosody, phonetics, sometimes, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.

hiatus — full definition

1. noun A gap or interruption in something that would otherwise be continuous.
2. noun A gap or opening, used in technical contexts such as anatomy or geology.

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