hiatus
/haɪˈeɪtəs/
noun
- A pause or break in something that is usually continuous.
- There was a brief hiatus in the conversation when the phone rang.
- The TV show is returning after a two-year hiatus.
- She took a hiatus from work to travel around the world.
- A gap or opening in a surface or structure.
- The rock formation had a narrow hiatus where water could flow through.
- The wall had a small hiatus where a brick had fallen out.
- Geologists study the hiatus in the layers of sediment.
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