Gap
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Gap or The Gap may refer to:
General
- Gap (landform), a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range
- Gap year, a prolonged period between a life stage
- Treefall gap, a spacing between large trees in a forest
Places
- Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
- Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
- The Gap, New South Wales, Australia, farming community in the central east part of the Riverina close to Wagga Wagga
- The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- The Gap (Sydney), an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Cumberland Gap, a pass through the Cumberland Mountains at the juncture of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia
- Darién Gap, Central America, the terrain feature that has prevented a roadway from being built that connects North and South America
- Loughborough Gap, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England
- Mid-Atlantic gap, in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, license plate code GAP
- Great Allegheny Passage (GAP), a hiking/biking trail stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland
Entertainment
- The Gap Band, an American music group
- Gap Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader
- The Gap (Joan of Arc album), a 2000 album by Joan of Arc
- The Gap Cycle, a science fiction novel series by Stephen Donaldson
- Gap FC, a French football club
- G Adventures, formerly Gap Adventures, the largest adventure travel company in Canada
Film
- The Gap (film) (El Boquete), a 2006 Argentine film
- Der Spalt (The Gap – Mindcontrol), a 2014 German film
Mathematics and technology
- GAP (computer algebra system) (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
- Generalized assignment problem
- Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
- Graph automorphism problem
- Gimp Animation Package, an extension for the GIMP
Science
- GaP, Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material
- GAP, Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle
- GAPs, GTPase-activating proteins, a family of regulatory proteins
- Gap or accidental gap, a form predicted by grammatical rules but missing from a language
- Gap junction or nexus, a specialized intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types
- Band gap or "energy gap", the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate
Linguistics
- A gap, accidental gap or lexical gap is a word or other form that does not exist in a language but could
Various kinds of ellipsis are called gaps:
- A gap is an instance of gapping
- A parasitic gap is a kind of correlated ellipsis
Organizations and businesses
- Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
- Gap Analysis Program, a federally coordinated program operated in conjunction with states and regions to assess the overall health of wildlife
- Gap Broadcasting Group, often capitalized as GAP
- Gap Inc., a chain of retail clothing stores
- Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
- Government Accountability Project, a United States nonprofit organization
- Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer, ticker symbol GAP
- Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, an American psychiatric professional organization
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, an airport operator holding group in Mexico
- Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian resistance group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
- Guyana Action Party/Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana, a Guyana political party
- Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi), a regional development project in Turkey
Other uses
- Bomber gap, the unfounded belief in the Cold War-era United States that the Soviet Union had gained an advantage in deploying jet-powered strategic bombers
- George Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
- .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
- Gap (chart pattern), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market
- GAP insurance, a type of vehicle insurance
- Generation gap, a term for differences between the values of younger people and their elders
- Good agricultural practice, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
- Mind the gap, a safety warning, with related uses
- Missile gap, the perceived disparity between the weapons in the U.S.S.R. and U.S. ballistic missile arsenals during the Cold War
- Tatar language#Gäp, a cryptolect of the Tatar language spoken in Kazan, near extinct since the 1920s
See also
- Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Gaap, in demonology
- Gab (song), troubadour boasting song
- Gap theorem (disambiguation)
- Gaps (disambiguation)
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