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Hiatus (anatomy) {{set index article In anatomy, a hiatus is a natural fissure in a structure. Examples include: * Adductor hiatus * Aortic hiatus * Esophageal hiatus, the opening in the diaphragm through which the oesophagus passes from the thorax into the abdome ...

, a natural fissure in a structure *

Hiatus (stratigraphy) An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous. In general, the older layer was exposed to erosion for an interval ...

, a discontinuity in the age of strata in stratigraphy *''Hiatus'', a genus of picture-winged flies with sole member species ''

Hiatus fulvipes ''Hiatus fulvipes'' is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly of the family Ulidiidae The Ulidiidae (formerly Otitidae) or picture-winged flies are a large and diverse cosmopolitan family of flies (Diptera), and as in related families, most ...

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Global warming hiatus A global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown, is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures. In the current episode of global warming many such 15 ...

, relating to trends in global temperatures as measured at earth's surface *

Vowel hiatus In phonology, hiatus, diaeresis (), or dieresis describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part of a single syllable, the result is c ...

, a sequence of two syllables with no consonant in the middle

Film and television

* "Hiatus" (''30 Rock''), first-season finale episode of ''30 Rock'' *"Hiatus", an episode of ''

NCIS NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to: Law enforcement * National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom * Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...

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Hiatus (television) In United States network television programming, a hiatus is a break of several weeks, months or years in the normal broadcast programming of a television series. Such a break can occur part-way through the season of a series, in which case it ...

, a break of several weeks or more in television scheduling *

Hiatus (production) The holiday production hiatus, or "hiatus", is a common practice in Los Angeles, California, British Columbia, and other places that regularly produce television and movie content. This is concurrent with the hiatus in programming between halves o ...

, a routine break of television and movie production in the latter half of December

Music

Hiatus (band) Hiatus was a Belgian hardcore punk band from Liege, Belgium, formed in 1989, that broke up in 1996. History Hiatus formed in May 1989, at this time the line-up was Phill, Ben, Raf and Phil. They played in a Doom/ Discharge/ E.N.T. style and ...

, a Belgian crustcore band *

The Hiatus The Hiatus is a Japanese rock supergroup formed by Takeshi Hosomi, lead vocalist of Ellegarden. Members * – vocals, guitar (Ellegarden, MONOEYES) * Masasucks – guitar (Fullscratch) * – bass (Radio Caroline, ex-Thee Michelle Gun Elephant ...

, a Japanese rock band *"Hiatus", a song from the Asking Alexandria album ''

Stand Up and Scream ''Stand Up and Scream'' is the debut studio album by British rock band Asking Alexandria. It was released on 15 September 2009 through Sumerian Records and was produced by Joey Sturgis. The album has charted at number 170 on the ''Billboard'' 2 ...

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