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lacunas

noun

Meaning

  1. A small opening; a small pit or depression.
  2. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
  3. An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
  4. Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
  5. A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
  6. A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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