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

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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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