Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:

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  • Lacuna (manuscripts), a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work
    • Great Lacuna, a lacuna of eight leaves in the Codex Regius where there was heroic Old Norse poetry
  • Lacuna (music), an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played
  • Scientific lacuna, an area of science that has not been studied but has potential to be studied
  • Lacuna or accidental gap, 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 ("it is not clear"), a gap (in the law)

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