Synonym: abatement, foramen, reprieve, respite, suspension. Similar words: status, afflatus, apparatus, status quo, psychiatrist, impetus, parochial, machiavellian. Meaning: [haɪ'eɪtəs] 
n. 1. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something 2. a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript) 3. a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.
n. 1. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something 2. a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript) 3. a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure. 61. In the normal nondistended state, this area coincides with the most caudad portion of the manometrically determined LES located within and caudad to the diaphragmatic hiatus.
62. We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years.
63. In September 1973 , after a summer hiatus, the Year of Europe twitched into life again.
More similar words: status, afflatus, apparatus, status quo, psychiatrist, impetus, parochial, machiavellian, philadelphia, eat up, nature, statue, beat up, mature, erratum, statute, feature, spatula, natural, naturally, creature, by nature, immature, in nature, premature, statutory, saturnine, unnatural, signature, naturalist.