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Bookmark or Share- Lapse - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.comA lapse is a temporary slip, failure or break in continuity. If you’re normally polite, a lapse in manners could make you forget to say “please” and “thank you.” First used to imply a “slip of the memory,” the noun lapse evolved in the sixteenth century from the Latin lapsus, meaning “a slipping and falling, falling into error.”
- LAPSE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comnoun. an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice. a slip or error, often of a trivial sort; failure: a lapse of memory. an interval or passage of time; elapsed period: a lapse of ten minutes before the program resumed.
- Lapse Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster1. a. : a slight error typically due to forgetfulness or inattention. a lapse in table manners. a lapse in security. b. : a temporary deviation or fall especially from a higher to a lower state. a lapse from grace. ethical lapses. 2. : a becoming less : decline. a lapse in the supply of technicians. 3. a (1)
- LAPSE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionarylapse. noun. uk / læps / us. [ C ] a mistake that is made because of a temporary lack of attention to something: lapse in sth There had been a lapse in security at the company, and the personal details of hundreds of customers had been made public. a security lapse. [ C, usually singular ]
- LAPSE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionarya mistake that is made because of a temporary lack of attention to something: lapse in sth There had been a lapse in security at the company, and the personal details of hundreds of customers had been made public. a security lapse. [ C, usually singular ] a period of time that passes between two things happening:
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