Gap

Gap or The Gap may refer to:

General

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
Treefall gap, a spacing between large trees in a forest

Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
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

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
Gap FC, a French football club
G Adventures, formerly Gap Adventures, the largest adventure travel company in Canada

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, a specialized intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types
Band gap or "energy gap", the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate

A gap, accidental gap or lexical gap is a word or other form that does not exist in a language but could

Various kinds of ellipsis are called gaps:

Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
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 Inc., a chain of retail clothing stores
Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
Government Accountability Project, a United States nonprofit organization
Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer, ticker symbol GAP
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

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
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
Good agricultural practice, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
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