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What is the noun for lacuna?

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lacuna
  1. A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
  2. An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar such.
  3. (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
  4. (translation studies) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Rather, this gap must be seen as a serious lacuna in the surviving texts, a gulf that will critically limit our analysis.”
      “It appears that there might be a lacuna of leadership, particularly regarding how this affects people and planet.”
      “In case 2, urography showed a lacuna of the renal pelvis, and CT scan showed an irregular thickening of the renal pelvis.”
lacunar
  1. (architecture) A sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling or a soffit.
  2. (architecture) A ceiling containing panels of this kind.
lacunarity
  1. The quality or degree of being lacunar.
lacune
  1. A lacuna.
lacunarities
  1. plural of lacunarity
lacunars
  1. plural of lacunar
lacunas
  1. plural of lacuna
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Gossett also addresses lacunas in the manuscript, suggesting that they may have involved some form of censorship.”
      “As a neutral platform, Kunstenloket identifies bottlenecks, lacunas and interpretational problems.”
      “Its real goal, instead, is rather to produce the best wax for every client without lacunas or redundancies.”
lacunae
  1. plural of lacuna
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nevertheless, whatever the terminology employed, the fact remains that gaps or lacunae have been filled by resort to those principles.”
      “Fill the lacunae in your inspiration by tidily copying out what you have already written.”
      “Surviving manuscripts have been preserved by chance, so there will always be lacunae in the documentary record.”
lacunes
  1. plural of lacune
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