Gap
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Gap or The Gap may refer to various openings, vacant spaces, lacks or pauses:
Natural features
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Gap, Alberta, Canada
- Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
- Gap, North Carolina, United States
- Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, a license plate code GAP
- Great Allegheny Passage (GAP), a hiking/biking trail stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland
Organizations and businesses
[edit]- Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
- Future Azerbaijan Party, an Azerbaijani political party
- 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 anti-abortion 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 of Personal Friends (Grupo de Amigos Personales), an armed guard of the Socialist Party of Chile 1970-1973
- 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 Patriottica (The Patriotic Action Groups), a communist WWII-era Partisan group, often referred to in Italian as "Gappisti"
- 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 (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi), a regional development project in Turkey
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer, ticker symbol GAP
Science and technology
[edit]- Band gap or "energy gap", the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate
- Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material
- Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle
- Good agricultural practice, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
- GTPase-activating proteins, a family of regulatory proteins
Linguistics
[edit]- 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 computer science and technology
[edit]- Air gap (networking), a security measure
- GAP (computer algebra system) (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
- Generalized assignment problem
- Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
- Gimp Animation Package, an extension for the GIMP
- Graph automorphism problem
Other uses
[edit]- Gap (chart pattern), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market
- Gap (Mandaeism) or Gaf, a demon of the Mandaean underworld
- GAP insurance, a type of vehicle insurance
- Gap Mangione, or Gaspare Charles "Gap" Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader
- Gap year, a prolonged period between life stages
- .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge