Gap

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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 low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range
Gap year, a prolonged period between a life stage

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
Great Allegheny Passage, A hiking/biking trail stretching from Pittsburgh, PA to Cumberland, MD

GAP computer algebra system (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
Generalized assignment problem
Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
Graph automorphism problem
Gimp Animation Package, an extension for the GIMP

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

Gap Inc., 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
Guyana Action Party/Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana, a Guyana political party
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 resistance 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

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.
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
Gap (chart pattern), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market
Gap insurance, a type of vehicle insurance
Generation gap, a term for differences between the values of younger people and their elders
Mind the gap, a safety warning, with related uses
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