English-French translations for hiatus

• hiatus
  La situation actuelle forme un hiatus injustifié, en totale contradiction avec les principes d’égalité, de tolérance et de respect qui sont au cœur du sentiment de communauté encouragé par l’Union. The current situation is an unjustified hiatus totally at odds with those principles of equality, tolerance and respect that lie at the heart of the fellow feeling fostered by the EU.
• discordance
• lacune
  Il est donc urgent de procéder à la mise en uvre, mais on constate encore une importante lacune dans les chaînes de traitement des déchets. Implementation is therefore urgent, but there is still a big hiatus in the waste treatment chain.

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