English-Portuguese translations for hiatus

• hiato
  Verificou-se um hiato inevitável até haver uma Comissão eficaz, mas já foi resolvido. It is that the inevitability of that hiatus, of having a Commission that was effective, has now been resolved.
  Apesar do hiato imposto pelos ensaios nucleares, temos estado a trabalhar para tornar estes mecanismos totalmente operacionais. Despite the hiatus imposed by the nuclear tests, we have been working hard to make these mechanisms fully operational.
  A situação actual constitui um hiato injustificado, absolutamente incompatível com os princípios de igualdade, tolerância e respeito que estão na base do sentir comum promovido pela UE. 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.
• lacuna

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
• shiatsu
• ischiatic