Gap

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 (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"
 * 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 (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