Gap
Appearance
Gap or The Gap may refer to:
General
[change | change source]- Gap (clothing retailer), a chain of clothing stores
- 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
- Gäp, the Tatar-based cant language
- Gaap, a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell in demonology
- Gap coverage, a type of vehicle insurance
- Band gap or energy gap, the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate
Places
[change | change source]- Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
- Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
- The Gap, Brecon Beacons, an ancient mountain trail in the Brecon Beacons, Wales
- The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- The Gap, New South Wales, an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama and Colombia
- Loughborough Gap, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England
- Fulda Gap, an area in Germany of strategic importance during the cold war
- Mid-Atlantic Gap, in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage
Entertainment
[change | change source]- The Gap Band, an American music group
- Gap Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader
- The Gap (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
Acronym
[change | change source]- .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
- GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, standard guidelines for financial accounting
- GAP, Good Agricultural Practices, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
- GAP, Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
- GAP, Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
- GAP, Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit organization
- GAP, Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
- GAP computer algebra system (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
- GAP, Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi (Southeastern Anatolia Project), a land reform project in Turkey
- GAP, the license plate code for Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
- GAP, Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
- Graph automorphism problem
- Air Philippines (ICAO designator)
Chemistry
[change | change source]- GaP, Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material
- GAPs, GTPase activating proteins, a biochemical compound
- GAP, Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle
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