A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory.
An interruption, break, pause or absence.
The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.
An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
Learned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).
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