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

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

Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
G Adventures, formerly Gap Adventures, Canadian travel company
Gap Analysis Program, on wildlife health
Gap Broadcasting Group
Gap FC, a French football club
Gap Inc., a clothing store chain
Global Animal Partnership, for animal welfare
Government Accountability Project, for US whistleblower protection
Great Ape Project, 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, US
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, a Mexican airport operator
Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (Patriotic Action Groups), Italian WWII partisan group
Italian: Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian resistance group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Guyana Action Party
Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi), a regional development project in Turkey
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, ticker symbol GAP

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

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

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