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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, 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)

    • References

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