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Feb 24, 2011

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with Anu Garg

lacuna

PRONUNCIATION:

(luh-KYOO-nuh)

plural lacunae (luh-KYOO-nee) or lacunas

MEANING:

noun: An empty space, gap, missing part, an opening.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin lacuna (hole, gap), from lacus (lake). Earliest documented use: 1663.

USAGE:

"Last week's collision between two cargo ships off the coast of Mumbai has exposed several systemic lacunae."
Black Waters; The Times of India (New Delhi, India); Aug 11, 2010.

See more usage examples of lacuna in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)

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