lacuna

IPA: ɫɑkˈunʌ

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

Examples of "lacuna" in Sentences

There seems to be a lacuna there.
The lacuna in the trip to Jericho.
It would be a lacuna to leave it out.
Thank you for discovering the lacuna ...
The Greek text has a lacuna in that place.
Not really my area, but a surprising lacuna.
He is the retroactive son of Lacuna and Vernon.
That is a lacuna in news reporting and sources are identifying it as such.
This facsimile was later published without the lacuna in the Book of Abraham.
Canaliculi are microscopic canals between the various lacunae of ossified bone.
He's foppish, priapic and urbane, making the word 'lacuna' sound like a decadent holiday destination.
Usually she found herself alone in a kind of lacuna, with people moving aside to pass her by at a safe distance.
Yet, given this "lacuna," this amazing "gap" in his work, a deprivation much more serious than his want of "philosophy,"
One of these lacunæ, larger than the rest, is situated on the upper surface of the fossa navicularis; it is called the lacuna magna.
This lacuna is conspicuous when compared to the extensive comparative literature on similar welfare institutions in the advanced industrialized economies of Western Europe and North America.
Is this because these spiritual guides of our race are too poor or too over-worked to serve his purpose, or do we perhaps, -- in this regrettable "lacuna" -- stumble upon one of the little smiling prejudices of our great conformist?