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Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and thehiatuses of theory.
2012, Chinle Miller, “The Tectonic Forces of the Mesozoic”, inIn Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition, page33:
The beginning of the Mesozoic Era on the Colorado Plateau is marked by a regionalhiatus or break of sedimentary deposition that lasted about 25 to 30 Ma.
Ahiatus is agreeable to any Polynesian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names asHaaii andPaaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered.
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“hiatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“hiatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"hiatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
