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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a blank gap or missing part [syn: lacuna, blank]
2: an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome [syn: coffer, caisson, lacuna]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural lacunae; also lacunas) Etymology: Latin, pool, pit, gap — more at lagoon Date: 1652 1. a blank space or a missing part ; gap <the evident lacunae in his story — Shirley Hazzard>; also deficiency 1 <despite all these lacunae, those reforms were a vast improvement — New Republic> 2. a small cavity, pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical structure • lacunar also lacunate adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. lacunae or lacunas) 1 a hiatus, blank, or gap. 2 a missing portion or empty page, esp. in an ancient MS, book, etc. 3 Anat. a cavity or depression, esp. in bone. Derivatives: lacunal adj. lacunar adj. lacunary adj. lacunose adj. Etymology: L, = pool, f. lacus LAKE(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lacuna La*cu"na, n.; pl. L. Lacun[ae]; E. Lacunas. [L., ditch, pit, lake, orig., anything hollow. See Lagoon.] 1. A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. 2. (Biol.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lacunae) 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) N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture, armpit, arrearage, basin, bowl, breach, break, broaching, caesura, cavity, cessation, chasm, check, clearance, clearing, cleft, concave, concavity, crack, crater, crypt, cup, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, depression, dip, disclosure, discontinuity, distance between, double space, em space, en space, fenestra, fissure, fistula, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen, freeboard, funnel chest, gap, gape, gat, gulf, hair space, half space, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollow shell, inlet, interim, intermediate space, intermission, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lack, laying open, leak, leap, leeway, letup, lull, margin, missing link, need, omission, opening, opening up, orifice, outage, outlet, passageway, pause, pit, pocket, pore, punch bowl, room, scoop, shell, shortage, single space, sink, sinus, slot, socket, space, space between, split, stoma, suspension, throwing open, time interval, trough, ullage, uncorking, unstopping, vug, want, wantage, yawn