uncompleted sentence: an instance of abandoning a grammatical construction in speech or writing before it is complete and continuing with another. The sentence "The subject of the lecture was - I didn't really understand it" contains an anacoluthon.
[Early 18th century. Via late Latin< Greek anakolouthon "illogicality, inconsistency" < anakolouthos "not following" < akolouthos "following"]
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