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Discontinuity vs Lacuna - What's the difference?

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Discontinuity is a related term of lacuna.


As nouns the difference between discontinuity and lacuna

is that discontinuity is a lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap while lacuna is a small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

discontinuity

English

Noun

(discontinuities)
  • A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap.
  • *2012 , , Turing's Cathedral , Penguin 2013, p. 57:
  • *:Shock waves are sudden discontinuities propagated in compressible media – usually air.
  • (mathematics) A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous.
  • (geology) a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change

    • Derived terms

    * Gutenberg discontinuity * * discontinuous

    lacuna

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
  • An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar such.
  • (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
  • (linguistics) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language

    • Synonyms

    * hiatus * gap

    Derived terms

    * lacunal * lacunary