Gap

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Gap or The Gap may refer to:

General

• Gap (clothing retailer), a chain of retail 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
• Gaps (Technical analysis), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market
• Gap coverage, a type of vehicle insurance
• Band gap or energy gap, the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate

Places

• Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
• Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
• The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• The Gap, New South Wales, an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
• The Gap (Arizona), a settlement in Coconino County, Arizona, United States
• The Gap, Brecon Beacons, an ancient mountain trail in the Brecon Beacons, Wales
• 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

Entertainment

• 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
• G.A.P Adventures, the largest adventure travel company in Canada

Mathematics and technology

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

Science

• 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

Organizations and businesses

• Gender Achievements and Prospects in Education (GAP) [1]
• 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
• 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 land reform project in Turkey
• Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
• Good Agricultural Practices A way of reducing the use of pesticides without forbidding them

Other uses

• .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
• Good Agricultural Practices, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
• Group of Personal Friends (GAP), Chilean president Salvador Allende's personal group of armed bodyguards

See also

• GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Gaap, in demonology
• Gap theorem (disambiguation)

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