Usually means: Gap or absence in understanding.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word lacuna:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacuna: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lacuna: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lacuna: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lacuna: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lacuna: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lacuna, lacuna: Wordnik
  7. lacuna: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lacuna: Wiktionary
  9. lacuna: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lacuna: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lacuna: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lacuna: Dictionary.com
  13. lacuna: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Lacuna (MS), Lacuna (comics), Lacuna (disambiguation), Lacuna (gastropod), Lacuna (histology), Lacuna (law), Lacuna (linguistics), Lacuna (manuscripts), Lacuna, The Lacuna, The lacuna: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lacuna: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lacuna: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lacuna: Rhymezone
  18. Lacuna: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lacuna: Free Dictionary
  20. lacuna: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. lacuna: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lacuna: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. lacuna: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacuna: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lacuna (law): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacuna: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Lacuna: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. lacuna: Medical dictionary
  6. Lacuna: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacuna: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See lacunae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (particularly anatomy) A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
noun:  (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
noun:  A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
noun:  An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
noun:  (figurative) Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
noun:  (linguistics, translation studies) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.

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