English-Dutch translations for hiatus

• hiaat
  Er is dus haast geboden bij de implementatie, maar daarnaast zit er nog een groot hiaat in de afvalverwerkingsketen. Implementation is therefore urgent, but there is still a big hiatus in the waste treatment chain.
  De onvermijdelijkheid van die hiaat, van een effectieve Commissie, is nu opgelost. It is that the inevitability of that hiatus, of having a Commission that was effective, has now been resolved.
• gaping
• gat
• interruptie
• lacune
• onderbreking
• pauze
• vakantie

Definition of hiatus

• A gap in a series, making it incomplete
• An unexpected break from work
• A gap in geological strata
• A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare

Examples

• Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
• Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.

Related words

• psychiatry
• psychiatrist
• psychiatric
• archiater
• macchiato
• neuropsychiatry
• absinthiated
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• ischiatic