caesura: meaning and definitions

A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.

A pause or interruption, as in conversation: After another weighty caesura the senator resumed speaking.

In Latin and Greek prosody, a break in a line caused by the ending of a word within a foot, especially when this coincides with a sense division.

Music A pause or breathing at a point of rhythmic division in a melody.