User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
lacunas- Plural of lacuna
Extensive Definition
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.
lacunas in German: Lakune
lacunas in Italian: Lacuna
lacunas in Russian: Лакуна