lapse

/læps/ noun [C]

Definition

FAILURE › a period of time when something fails to happen as it should: a memory lapse It is thought that the accident was caused by a lapse of concentration.

TIME › a period of time passing between two things happening: a time lapse/a lapse of time He turned up again after a lapse of two years.

(Definition of lapse noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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