lacuna
11lacuna — ► NOUN (pl. lacunae or lacunas) 1) a gap or missing portion. 2) Anatomy a cavity or depression, especially in bone. DERIVATIVES lacunar adjective. ORIGIN Latin, pool …
12lacuna — [lə kyo͞o′nə] n. pl. lacunas or lacunae [lə kyo͞o′nē] [L, a ditch, hole, pool < lacus: see LAKE1] 1. a space where something has been omitted or has come out; gap; hiatus; esp., a missing portion in a manuscript, text, etc. 2. Anat. Biol. a… …
13Lacuna — Generally, a lacuna is a gap. The term may refer to: * Lacuna (manuscripts), a missing section of text * Lacuna (music), an extended silence in a piece of music * Lacuna (linguistics), a lexical gap in a language * Lacuna (law) is the lack of law …
14lacuna — la·cù·na s.f. 1a. CO interruzione, soluzione di continuità, intervallo o spazio vuoto creato da assenza o mancanza | estens., mancanza, omissione, dimenticanza: presentare forti lacune nella preparazione di una materia, avere gravi lacune nella… …
15lacuna — {{hw}}{{lacuna}}{{/hw}}s. f. 1 In filologia, mancanza di parola, frase o brano, in un testo. 2 (bot.) Cavità. 3 (fig.) Vuoto, mancanza | Una lacuna della memoria, una dimenticanza. ETIMOLOGIA: dal lat. lacuna ‘cavità, bacino’, deriv. da lacus… …
16lacuna — UK [ləˈkjuːnə] / US [ləˈkjunə] noun [countable] Word forms lacuna : singular lacuna plural lacunae UK [ləˈkjuːniː] / US [ləˈkjuˌnɪ] very formal an empty space where something is missing, for example from a piece of writing …
17lacuna — n.; pl. ae [L. lacuna, cavity] 1. A space, gap, cavity or channel. 2. (ACANTHOCEPHALA) Channels making up the lacunar system. 3. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In wing development, canals that contain nerves, tracheae, and hemolymph. 4.… …
18lacuna — /leuh kyooh neuh/, n., pl. lacunae / nee/, lacunas. 1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus. 2. Anat. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells. 3.… …
19lacuna — [[t]ləkju͟ːnə[/t]] lacunae N COUNT If you say that there is a lacuna in something such as a document or a person s argument, you mean that it does not deal with an important issue and is therefore not effective or convincing. [FORMAL] There are… …
20lacuna — (lah KYOO nah, lah KOO nah) [Latin: pit; hole] A gap; a section missing from a manuscript, a series, or an argument; a hiatus. There is one immense lacuna: an entire section on the lions of the Serengeti is missing …
