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

gollark: When you talk about the "key" here, do you mean that you just need to know *how it works* to ~~use~~ decrypt it, or need to have some specific extra bit of information?

gollark: What do you mean "alphabet scrambles"?

gollark: Maybe you could ask someone about the concept. Or look it up on the internet to see if there are different ways to think about it which you might prefer.

gollark: Try solving things with said concept?

gollark: Stuff cooling down and radioactive decay, I think.

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