Hiatuses

Quick meaning: Hiatuses is a noun meaning plural of hiatus.

Meaning

plural of hiatus.

Example Sentences

Thus all stratigraphic sections have undetected hiatuses at some scale.

Hiatuses or gaps in the Elohim document form an argument against its existence, in the hands of critics like Keil; but the instances of them are fewer than he supposes.

That many pretended cognoscenti in music are totally ignorant of such natural principles, I am convinced; for I have heard a lady play gracefully a lesson of Clementi's, who knew nothing about it, but how a man, of an investigating mind, can see the black keys of a harpsichord, and observe the two hiatuses in the rows of every octave, and not ask himself why, is to me unaccountable.

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