hiatuses
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hiatuses
- plural of hiatus
- 1708, THE MONTHLY REPERTORY of ENGLISH LITERATURE, FOR April May June and July; or AN IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF ALL THE BOOKS RELATIVE TO LITERATURE, ARTS, SCIENCES, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, ARCHTECTURE, COMMERCE, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, MEDICINE, THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS, POEMS, NOVELS, etc. TOGETHER WITH ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, RECENT GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES, NEW PATENTS, etc. etc. forming A VALUABLE SELECTION FROM THE MOST ESTEEMED ENGLISH REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES., volume IV, Paris, page 422:
- That many pretended cognoscenti in music are totally ignorant of such natural principles, I am convinced; for I have heard a lady play gracefully a lesson of Clementi's, who knew nothing about it, but how a man, of an investigating mind, can see the black keys of a harpsichord, and observe the two hiatuses in the rows of every octave, and not ask himself why, is to me unaccountable.
- 1862, SAMUEL DAVIDSON D.D., AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT, CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND THEOLOGICAL, CONTAINING A DISCUSSION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS BELONGING TO THE SEVERAL BOOKS., volume 1, WILLIAMS AND NORGATE, page 34:
- Hiatuses or gaps in the Elohim document form an argument against its existence, in the hands of critics like Keil; but the instances of them are fewer than he supposes.
- 2005, Graham P. Weedon, Time-Series Analysis and Cyclostratigraphy: Examining Stratigraphic Records of Environmental Cycles, Cambridge University Press, page 147:
- Thus all stratigraphic sections have undetected hiatuses at some scale.