LACUNA DEFINITIONS - 7 definitions found
lacuna 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] lacuna canula Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) lacuna 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 English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary lacuna (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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 111 Moby Thesaurus words for "lacuna": 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 |
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