lacuna

1 a blank gap or missing part [syn: blank]

2 an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome [syn: coffer, caisson] [also: lacunae (pl)]

English

Noun

lacuna (plural lacunae or lacunas)

1. A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
2. An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.

Derived terms

• lacunary

Italian

Noun

1. gap
2. blank (space)
3. lapse (of memory)

Latin

Noun

1. hole, pit

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 or of a legal source addressing a situation
• Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage
• Lacuna model, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text
• Lacunar amnesia, in psychology, amnesia about a specific event
• Lacuna (geology), a large gap in the stratigraphic record, sometimes called a hiatus or unconformity

Lacuna may also refer to:

• Lacuna Coil, an Italian hard rock/metal band
• Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• a character in the Xanth series of books by Piers Anthony
• Lacuna Part I, an indie role-playing game by Jared Sorenson.
• Lacuna (comics) a fictional Marvel Comics superhero and associate of X-Statix.

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