Usually means: Temporary pause in ongoing activity.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hiatus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hiatus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hiatus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hiatus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hiatus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hiatus, hiatus: Wordnik
  7. hiatus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hiatus: Wiktionary
  9. hiatus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hiatus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hiatus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hiatus: Dictionary.com
  13. hiatus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hiatus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hiatus (NCIS), Hiatus (anatomy), Hiatus (band), Hiatus (fly), Hiatus (linguistics), Hiatus (television), Hiatus, The Hiatus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hiatus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hiatus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hiatus: Rhymezone
  19. Hiatus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hiatus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hiatus: Free Dictionary
  22. hiatus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hiatus: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. hiatus: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hiatus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HIATUS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  2. hiatus: Legal dictionary
  3. hiatus: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  5. Hiatus: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hiatus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hiatus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hiatus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. hiatus: Medical dictionary
  6. Hiatus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
noun:  An interruption, break or pause.
noun:  An unexpected break from work.
noun:  (geology) A gap in geological strata.
noun:  (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
noun:  (linguistics, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
noun:  A temporary absence from the public or the mainstream.

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