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hiatus (noun):
1a: a break in or as if in a material object : gap
b biology : a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ
2a: an interruption in time or continuity : break
especially : a period when something (such as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted
b: the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound – as in, well, hiatus
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : While the word now most often refers to a temporary pause, hiatus originally referred to a physical opening in something, such as the mouth of a cave, or, as the 18th century British novelist Laurence Sterne would have it, a sartorial gap: in the wildly experimental novel Tristram Shandy, Sterne wrote of “the hiatus in Phutatorius’s breeches.” Hiatus comes from the Latin verb hiare, meaning “to open wide,” which makes it a distant relation of both yawn and chasm.
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