Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:
Related to the meaning "gap"
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Lacuna (manuscripts)
A lacuna ( lacunae or lacunas) is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work. A manuscript, text, or section suffering from gaps is said to be "lacunose" or "lacunulose".
Weathering, decay, and other damage to o ...
, a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work
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Great Lacuna
The Great Lacuna is a lacuna of eight leaves where there was heroic Old Norse poetry in the ''Codex Regius''. The gap would have contained the last part of ''Sigrdrífumál'' and most of ''Sigurðarkviða''. What remains of the last poem consist ...
, a lacuna of eight leaves where there was heroic Old Norse poetry in the ''Codex Regius''
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Lacuna (music), an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played
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Scientific lacuna
Scientific lacuna describes an area of science that has not been studied but has the potential to be studied scientifically. Often, this may be the case because it falls between different areas of sciences, such that it doesn't fall into a single s ...
, an area of science that has not been studied but has potential to be studied
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accidental gap
In linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite being t ...
, in linguistics, a word that does not exist but which would be permitted by the rules of a language
* Lacuna, in law, largely overlapping a ''
non liquet
In law, a ''non liquet'' (commonly known as "wikt:lacuna, lacuna in the law") is any situation where there is no applicable law. ''Non liquet'' translates into English from Latin as "it is not clear". According to Cicero, the term was applied duri ...
'' ("it is not clear"), a gap (in the law)
In medicine
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Lacuna (histology)
In histology, a lacuna is a small space, containing an osteocyte in bone, or chondrocyte in cartilage.
Bone
The lacunae are situated between the lamellae, and consist of a number of oblong spaces. In an ordinary microscopic section, viewed by tr ...
, a small space containing an osteocyte in bone, or chondrocyte in cartilage
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Muscular lacuna
The muscular lacuna (Latin: ''lacuna musculorum'') is the lateral compartment of the thigh inferior to the inguinal ligament, for the passage of the iliopsoas muscle, the femoral nerve and the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh; it is separate ...
, a lateral compartment of the thigh
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Vascular lacuna
The vascular lacuna (Latin: ''lacuna vasorum'') is the compartment beneath the inguinal ligament which allows for passage of the femoral vessels, lymph vessels and lymph nodes. Its boundaries are the iliopectineal arch, the inguinal ligament, the ...
, a medial compartment beneath the inguinal ligament
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Lacuna magna
In male anatomy, the lacuna magna (also called Guérin's sinus) is the largest of several recesses in the roof of the navicular fossa of the male urethra.
Structure
The lacuna magna is a large recess in the roof of the navicular fossa of the ...
, the largest of several recesses in the urethra
Other uses
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Lacuna (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics character
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''Lacuna'' (film), a 2012 Chinese romantic comedy film
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''Lacuna'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails in the family Littorinidae
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Helcogramma lacuna'' (''H. lacuna''), a species of fish in the genus ''Helcogramma''
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Mallomonas lacuna'' (''M. lacuna''), a species of heterokont algae
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Lacuna Island
Lacuna Island is a small island lying east of Tula Point, the northern end of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos obtained by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd, 1956–57, and was so named by the UK Antarctic P ...
, Antarctica
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Jessie Lacuna
Jessie Khing Lacuna ( ; born December 23, 1993) is a Filipino former competitive swimmer who competed in the freestyle and butterfly events. He had, overall, won 26 Gold medals in Philippine Olympic Games and 7 in SEA Age Group Swimming Champio ...
(born 1993), a Filipino swimmer
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The Lacuna
''The Lacuna'' is a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It is Kingsolver's sixth novel, and won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Library of Virginia Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award.
Plo ...
'', a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver
* Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the 2004 film ''
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (also simply known as ''Eternal Sunshine'') is a 2004 American romantic science fiction drama film written by Charlie Kaufman, directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. P ...
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* Lacuna, the name of several
lakes of Titan
Lakes of ethane and methane on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have been detected by the ''Cassini–Huygens'' space probe, and had been suspected long before. The large ones are known as maria (seas) and the small ones as lacūs (lakes).
History
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, the moon of Saturn
See also
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Lacuna model
The lacuna model is a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text (in the further meaning). The lacuna model was established as a theory by Jurij Sorokin and Irina Markovina (Russia), further developed by Astrid Ertelt-Vieth a ...
, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text
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Lacunar amnesia
Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about a specific event. This specific form of amnesia is caused by brain damage in the limbic system which is responsible for our memories and emotions. When the damage occurs it leaves a lacuna, or a gap, in ...
, loss of memory about one specific event
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Lacunar stroke
Lacunar stroke or lacunar cerebral infarct (LACI) is the most common type of ischemic stroke, resulting from the occlusion of small penetrating arteries that provide blood to the brain's deep structures. Patients who present with symptoms of a lac ...
, in medicine, the most common type of stroke
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Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Since their formation in 1994, the group has had two name changes, being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, and they have recorded nine studio albums, two extended plays, two ...
, an Italian hard rock/metal band
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Lacunary function In analysis, a lacunary function, also known as a lacunary series, is an analytic function that cannot be analytically continued anywhere outside the radius of convergence within which it is defined by a power series. The word ''lacunary'' is derive ...
, an analytic function in mathematics
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Lacunarity
Lacunarity, from the Latin lacuna, meaning "gap" or "lake", is a specialized term in geometry referring to a measure of how patterns, especially fractals, fill space, where patterns having more or larger gaps generally have higher lacunarity. ...
, a measure of gappiness in mathematics
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Lacunary polynomial In mathematics, a sparse polynomial (also lacunary polynomial or fewnomial) is a polynomial that has far fewer terms than its degree and number of variables would suggest. Examples include
*monomials, polynomials with only one term,
* binomials, po ...
, or sparse polynomial
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Petrovsky lacuna
In mathematics, a Petrovsky lacuna, named for the Russian mathematician I. G. Petrovsky, is a region where the fundamental solution of a linear hyperbolic partial differential equation vanishes.
They were studied by who found topological
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Laguna (disambiguation)
Laguna (Italian and Spanish for lagoon) may refer to:
People
* Abe Laguna (born 1992), American DJ known as Ookay
* Andrés Laguna (1499–1559), Spanish physician, pharmacologist, and botanist
* Ana Laguna (born 1955), Spanish-Swedish ballet ...
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