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  1. filled pausenoun

    Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech.

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  1. filled pause

    A speech disfluency, also spelled speech dysfluency, is any of various breaks, irregularities, or non-lexical vocables which occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech. These include "false starts", i.e. words and sentences that are cut off mid-utterance; phrases that are restarted or repeated and repeated syllables; "fillers", i.e. grunts or non-lexical utterances such as huh, uh, erm, um, well, so, like, and hmm; and "repaired" utterances, i.e. instances of speakers correcting their own slips of the tongue or mispronunciations (before anyone else gets a chance to). Huh is claimed to be a universal syllable.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of filled pause in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of filled pause in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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