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Definition of lacuna noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

lacuna

noun

NAmE//ləˈkunə//

, NAmE//ləˈkyunə//

(pl. lacunae

NAmE//ləˈkuni//

, NAmE//ləˈkyuni//

, (or )lacunas) (formal)

a place where something is missing in a piece of writing or in an idea, a theory, etc. synonym gap

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