Lacuna

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) is the lack of law or of a legal source addressing a situation
* Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage
* Lacuna model, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text
* Lacunar amnesia, in psychology, amnesia about a specific event
* Lacuna (geology), a large gap in the stratigraphic record, sometimes called a hiatus or unconformity
* Petrovsky lacuna, a region where the fundamental solution of a differential equation vanishes.

Lacuna may also refer to:
* Lacuna Coil, an Italian hard rock/metal band
* Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
* a character in the Xanth series of books by Piers Anthony
* [http://www.memento-mori.com/lacuna/ Lacuna Part I] , an indie role-playing game by Jared Sorensen.
* Lacuna (comics) a fictional Marvel Comics superhero and associate of X-Statix.


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