Gap Explained

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
• 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

• 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 (Spanish; Castilian: 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"
• Italian: 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, 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

See also

• Gap theorem (disambiguation)
• Gaps (disambiguation)
• The Gap (disambiguation)