Gap

Gap or The Gap may refer to various openings, vacant spaces, lacks or pauses:

Natural features

• Gap (landform), a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range
• Treefall gap, a spacing between large trees in a forest

Places

• Gap, Alberta, Canada
• Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
• Gap, North Carolina, United States
• 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

Personal name

• Gap Mangione, or Gaspare Charles "Gap" Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Gap, a transdimensional demon of wind from Brave Saga 2
• Der Spalt (The Gap – Mindcontrol), a 2014 German film
• The Gap (film) (El Boquete), a 2006 Argentine film
• The Gap (Joan of Arc album), a 2000 album by Joan of Arc
• The Gap Band, an American music group
• The Gap Cycle, a science fiction novel series by Stephen Donaldson

Linguistics

• Gap, accidental gap, or lexical gap, a word or other form that does not exist in a language but could
• Gap, a kind of ellipsis, e.g.:
  • Gap is an instance of gapping
  • Parasitic gap, a kind of correlated ellipsis

Mathematics and technology

• GAP (computer algebra system) (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
• Air gap (networking), a security measure
• Generalized assignment problem
• Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
• Gimp Animation Package, an extension for the GIMP
• Graph automorphism problem

Organizations and businesses

• Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
• G Adventures, formerly Gap Adventures, the largest adventure travel company in Canada
• 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 FC, a French football club
• Gap Inc., a chain of retail clothing stores
• Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
• Global Animal Partnership, an animal welfare nonprofit
• Government Accountability Project, a United States nonprofit organization
• Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
• 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
• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer, ticker symbol GAP

Science and technology

• Band gap or "energy gap", the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate
• Gallium(III) phosphide, or GaP, a semiconductor material
• Gap junction or nexus, a specialized intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types
• Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, or GAP, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle
• Good agricultural practice, or GAP, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
• GTPase-activating proteins, or GAPs, a family of regulatory proteins

Other uses

• Gap (chart pattern), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market
• .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
• 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
• GAP insurance, a type of vehicle insurance
• Gap year, a prolonged period between a life stage
• Gaps and gores
• Generation gap, a term for differences between the values of younger people and their elders
• Mind the gap, a safety warning
• 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

• Gap theorem (disambiguation)
• Gaps (disambiguation)
• Mind the gap (disambiguation)