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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hi·a·tus n.; pl. L. Hiatus, E. Hiatuses
 1. An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
 2. Gram. The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.
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