Lacuna

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Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:

Related to the meaning "gap"

• Lacuna (manuscripts), a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work
  • Great Lacuna, a lacuna of eight leaves in the Codex Regius where there was heroic Old Norse poetry
• Lacuna (music), an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played
• Scientific lacuna, an area of science that has not been studied but has potential to be studied
• Lacuna or accidental gap, in linguistics, a word that does not exist but which would be permitted by the rules of a language
• Lacuna, in law, largely overlapping a non liquet ("it is not clear"), a gap (in the law)

Other uses

• Lacuna (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics character
• Lacuna (film), a 2012 Chinese romantic comedy film
• Lacuna (gastropod), a genus of sea snails in the family Littorinidae
• Helcogramma lacuna (H. lacuna), a species of fish in the genus Helcogramma
• Mallomonas lacuna (M. lacuna), a species of heterokont algae
• Lacuna Island, Antarctica
• Jessie Lacuna (born 1993), a Filipino swimmer
• The Lacuna, a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Lacuna, the name of several lakes of Titan, the moon of Saturn

See also

• Lacuna model, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text
• Lacunar amnesia, loss of memory about one specific event
• Lacunar stroke, in medicine, the most common type of stroke
• Lacuna Coil, an Italian hard rock/metal band
• Lacunary function, an analytic function in mathematics
• Lacunarity, a mathematical measure of the extent that a pattern contains gaps
• Lacunary polynomial, or sparse polynomial
• Petrovsky lacuna, in mathematics
• Laguna (disambiguation)

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