Lacuna

Generally, a lacuna is a gap. The term may refer to:

Lacuna (manuscripts), a missing section of text
Lacuna (music), an extended silence in a piece of music
Lacuna (linguistics), a lexical gap in a language
Lacuna (law), the lack of a law or legal source addressing a situation
Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage
Lacuna (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics superhero and associate of X-Statix
Lacuna model, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text
Lacunar amnesia, in psychology, amnesia about a specific event
Petrovsky lacuna, a region where the fundamental solution of a differential equation vanishes
Lacuna Coil, an Italian hard rock/metal band
Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Lacuna, a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Lacuna, a character in the Xanth series of books by Piers Anthony

Translation

The word "Lacuna" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Italian.

Translation(s) in other languages: German: Lakune, Russian: Лакуна.