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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
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
- Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
- Graph automorphism problem
- Gimp Animation Package, a plug-in 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
- 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
- Gaps (Technical analysis), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market
- Gap insurance, a type of vehicle insurance
See also
- GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Gaap, in demonology
- Gap theorem (disambiguation)
- Gaps (disambiguation)
References