Gap

Gap or The Gap may refer to:

General

• Gap (ecology), a spacing between large trees in a forest
• Gap (landform), a mountain pass, often carved by a river
• Gap year, a prolonged period between a life stage

Places

• Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
• Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
• The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• The Gap, New South Wales, farming community in the central east part of the Riverina close to Wagga Wagga
• 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
• 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
• Darien Gap, Central America, the terrain feature that has prevented a roadway from being built that connects North and South America
• Great Allegheny Passage, A hiking/biking trail stretching from Pittsburgh, PA to Cumberland, MD

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
• El Boquete (The Gap), a 2006 Argentine film
• Gap FC, a French football club
• G.A.P Adventures, the largest adventure travel company in Canada

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 is a specialized intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types
• Band gap or energy gap, the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate

Organizations and businesses

• Gap (clothing retailer), a chain of retail clothing stores
• Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer, ticker symbol GAP
• Government Accountability Project, a United States nonprofit organization
• Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
• Guyana Action Party/Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana, a Guyana political party
• Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
• Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, an American psychiatric professional organization
• Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
• Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi), a regional development project in Turkey
• Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
• Good Agricultural Practices A way of reducing the use of pesticides without forbidding them
• Gap Analysis Program A Federally-coordinated program operated in conjunction with states and regions to assess the overall health of wildlife
• Gap Central Broadcasting Formerly known as Gap Broadcasting, often capitalized as GAP
• Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, an airport operator holding group in Mexico

Other uses

• George Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
• .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
• Good Agricultural Practices, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
• 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
• 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.

See also

• GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Gaap, in demonology
• Gap theorem (disambiguation)
• Gaps (disambiguation)