A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening. • A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche. • The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located. • A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place. • A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion. • An obscure, remote, or secret situation. • A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause. • A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended. • A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation. • An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back. • A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League. • An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion. • Leisure, relaxation. • The state of being withdrawn. • A departure from a norm or position. • A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite. • An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface. • An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)