Lacuna

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Generally, a lacuna is a gap. The term may refer to:

  • Lacuna (manuscripts), a missing section of text
  • Lacuna (music), an extended silence in a piece of music
  • Lacuna (linguistics), a lexical gap in a language
  • Lacuna (law) is the lack of law or of a legal source addressing a situation
  • Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage
  • Lacuna model, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text
  • Lacunar amnesia, in psychology, amnesia about a specific event
  • Lacuna (geology), a large gap in the stratigraphic record, sometimes called a hiatus or unconformity

Lacuna may also refer to: