Meaning of Hiatus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
   countable, uncountable
2. An interruption, break, pause or absence.
   countable, uncountable
3. An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
   countable, uncountable
4. A gap in geological strata.
   countable, uncountable
5. An opening in an organ.
   countable, uncountable
6. A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
   sometimes, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory.”

“The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.”

“It is wonderful that you should have slipped back into your American life so easily after your English hiatus.”

“After a ten-year dividend hiatus, shareholder payments only re-started in July 2022.”

“The beginning of the Mesozoic Era on the Colorado Plateau is marked by a regional hiatus or break of sedimentary deposition that lasted about 25 to 30 Ma.”

“Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.”

“A hiatus is agreeable to any Polynesian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered.”

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