Usually means: Temporary pause in ongoing activity.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word HIATUS:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hiatus: Merriam-Webster
  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: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hiatus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hiatus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hiatus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. hiatus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

▸ 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.

Similar:
respite, abatement, reprieve, suspension, lacuna, separation, gaplessness, absence, noncontinuation, suspense, more...

Opposite:
resumption

Types:
aposiopesis, ellipsis, anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epizeuxis, more...

Phrases:
hiatus hernia, Esophageal hiatus, sacral hiatus, Aortic hiatus, oesophageal hiatus, more...

Adjectives:
year, long, brief, diaphragmatic, aortic, oesophageal, month, sacral, short, tentorial, temporary

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Similar:
respite, abatement, reprieve, suspension, lacuna, separation, gaplessness, absence, noncontinuation, suspense, more...

Opposite:
resumption

Types:
aposiopesis, ellipsis, anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epizeuxis, more...

Phrases:
hiatus hernia, Esophageal hiatus, sacral hiatus, Aortic hiatus, oesophageal hiatus, adductor hiatus, hiatus hernias, semilunar hiatus, urogenital hiatus, maxillary hiatus, saphenous hiatus, more...

Adjectives:
year, long, brief, diaphragmatic, aortic, oesophageal, month, sacral, short, tentorial, temporary

Colors:
    slate gray,     muted blue,     dusty rose,     soft lavender,     pale taupe, more...



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