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  Gap or The Gap may refer to:

General

  • Gap (clothing retailer)
    Gap (clothing retailer)

    The Gap, Inc. is an United States clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F....
    , a chain of retail clothing stores
  • Gap (ecology)
    Gap (ecology)

    In ecology, a gap or canopy gap is an opening in the forest canopy structure devoid of large trees. Gaps are formed after large trees die and fall and allows the regrowth trees and other plants as the shade is removed....
    , a spacing between large trees in a forest
  • Gap (landform), a mountain pass, often carved by a river
  • Gap year
    Gap year

    A gap year is a term that refers to a prolonged period between a life stage. The most popular gap years are taken pre or during matriculation in a university or college, between college and graduate school and a profession, during a career change, pre or post marriage or having a first child and pre or post retirement....
    , a prolonged period between a life stage
  • Gäp
    Gäp

    The Ya?a Bist? slang, Ya?a Bist? g?be or simply G?p was a distinct cryptolect of the Tatar language, spoken in Ya?a Bist? of Kazan, traditionally known by its high crime rate....
    , the Tatar-based cant language
  • Gap coverage
    Vehicle insurance

    Vehicle insurance is insurance purchased for automobile, trucks, and other vehicles. Its primary use is to provide protection against losses incurred as a result of Motor-vehicle collision and against liability that could be incurred in an accident....
    , a type of vehicle insurance
  • Band gap
    Band gap

    In solid state physics and related applied fields, a band gap, also called an energy gap or bandgap, is an energy range in a solid where no electron states exist....
     or energy gap, the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate
  • GAP, the ticker symbol for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer.
  • A gap between your teeth


Places

  • Gap, Hautes-Alpes
    Gap, Hautes-Alpes

    Gap is a communes of France in southeastern France, the capital of the Hautes-Alpes Departments of France....
    , France
  • Gap, Pennsylvania
    Gap, Pennsylvania

    The Gap is a census-designated place and town in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with a zip code of 17527....
    , United States
  • The Gap, Brecon Beacons, an ancient mountain trail in the Brecon Beacons
    Brecon Beacons

    The Brecon Beacons is a mountain range in South Wales. It forms the central section of the Brecon Beacons National Park , one of Wales's three National Parks of England and Waless....
    , Wales
  • The Gap, Queensland
    The Gap, Queensland

    The Gap is a leafy and hilly suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia. The suburb is located 12 km west of the Brisbane CBD....
    , a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • The Gap, New South Wales
    The Gap, New South Wales

    The Gap is an ocean cliff, in eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the Eastern Suburbs suburb of Watsons Bay, New South Wales, near Sydney Heads....
    , an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
  • Darién Gap
    Darién Gap

    The Dari?n Gap is a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama and Colombia . It measures just over 160 km long and about 50 km wide....
    , a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama and Colombia
  • Loughborough Gap
    Loughborough Gap

    The Loughborough Gap is a short, disused section of the former Great Central Railway in the northeastern corner of Loughborough, England, between the northern and southern sections of the present-day Great Central Railway ....
    , a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England
  • Fulda Gap
    Fulda Gap

    The Fulda Gap is a region of lower elevation between the former East Germany border and Frankfurt am Main. Named for the town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap was strategically important during the Cold War....
    , an area in Germany of strategic importance during the cold war
  • Mid-Atlantic Gap
    Mid-Atlantic gap

    The Mid-Atlantic Gap was the gap in coverage by land-based RAF Coastal Command anti-submarine warfare aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic in the World War II....
    , in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage


Entertainment

  • The Gap Band, an American music group
  • Gap Mangione
    Gap Mangione

    Gaspare "Gap" Mangione is a jazz pianist, composer, arrangement, and bandleader from Rochester, New York, United States.Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy Award-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione....
    , jazz pianist and bandleader
  • The Gap (album)
    The Gap (Album)

    The Gap is the fourth full-length album by Joan of Arc , released in 2000 on Jade Tree Records....
    , a 2000 album by Joan of Arc
  • The Gap Cycle
    The Gap Cycle

    The Gap Cycle is a science fiction story, told in a series of 5 books, written by Stephen R. Donaldson. It is an epic set in a future where humans have pushed far out into space in the name of commerce and follows two concurrent story arcs....
    , a science fiction novel series by Stephen Donaldson
  • El Boquete
    El Boquete

    El Boquete is a 2006 Argentina comedy drama film directed and written by Mariano Mucci. It stars Valentina Bassi and Daniel Valenzuela....
     (The Gap), a 2006 Argentine film
  • Gap FC
    Gap FC

    Gap Hautes-Alpes Football Club is a Soccer club based in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France. They play at the Stade Municipal de Gap in Gap, Hautes-Alpes....
    , a French football club
  • G.A.P Adventures
    G.A.P Adventures

    G.A.P Adventures is the largest adventure travel company in Canada and claims to offer socially and Eco-tourism. Bruce Poon Tip launched G.A.P Adventures in 1990 with the intention of offering travelers authentic adventures in the real world....
    , the largest adventure travel company in Canada
  • GAP, The Movie, an American independent horror film


Acronym

  • .45 GAP
    .45 GAP

    The .45 G.A.P. pistol Cartridge was designed by Ernest Durham, an engineer with CCI/Speer, at the request of firearms manufacturer Glock to provide a cartridge that would equal the power of the .45 ACP but was shorter to fit in a more compact handgun, and with a stronger case head to reduce the possibility of case neck blowouts....
    , the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
  • GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
    Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

    Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is the term used to refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting used in any given jurisdiction....
    , standard guidelines for financial accounting
  • GAP, Good Agricultural Practices
    Good Agricultural Practices

    The term Good Agricultural Practices can refer to any collection of specific methods, which when applied to agriculture, produce results that are in harmony with the values of the proponents of those practices....
    , any collection of value-based agricultural practices
  • GAP, Generic access profile
    Generic access profile

    The Generic Access Profile describes a set of mandatory requirements to allow any conforming DECT Fixed Part to inter operate with any conforming DECT Portable Part in order to provide basic telephony services when attached to a 3.1kHz telephone network ....
    , an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
  • GAP, Genocide Awareness Project
    Genocide Awareness Project

    The Genocide Awareness Project is a movable pro-life display being temporarily installed on multiple university campuses in the United States and Canada since 1997....
    , a movable pro-life display
  • GAP, Government Accountability Project
    Government Accountability Project

    The Government Accountability Project is the United States' leading whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating of whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, GAP?s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability....
    , a nonprofit organization
  • GAP, Great Ape Project
    Great Ape Project

    The Great Ape Project , founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, psychologists, ethicists, and other experts who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans....
    , an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
  • GAP, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
    Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

    The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry is an United States professional organization of psychiatrists dedicated to shaping psychiatric thinking, public programs and clinical practice in mental health....
    , an American psychiatric professional organization
  • GAP computer algebra system
    GAP computer algebra system

    GAP is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory. GAP was developed at Lehrstuhl D f?r Mathematik , RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1986 to 1997....
     (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
  • GAP, Güneydogu Anadolu Projesi (Southeastern Anatolia Project
    Southeastern Anatolia Project

    The Southeastern Anatolia Project is a multi-sector integrated regional development project based on the concept of sustainable development for the 9 million people living in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey....
    ), a land reform project in Turkey
  • GAP, the license plate code for Garmisch-Partenkirchen
    Garmisch-Partenkirchen

    Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a market town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen , in the Oberbayern region, not far from the border with Austria....
    , Germany
  • GAP, Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
    Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

    Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was an Italy publisher and left-wing political activist. He founded the publishing house Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore in 1954....
  • Graph automorphism problem
  • Air Philippines
    Air Philippines

    Air Philippines Corporation is a low-cost airline based in Pasay City, Manila, the Philippines. It operates extensive domestic scheduled services from Manila and Cebu City....
     (ICAO designator)
  • GAP, , a geographic program in the United States that identifies conservation gaps between protected land and biodiversity
  • GAP, Gimp Animation Package, a plug-in for the GIMP
    GIMP

    The GIMP is a free software, raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image components, and converting between different image formats....
  • GAP, Google Adwords Professional
  • GAPS, Gut and Psychology Syndrome
    Gut and Psychology Syndrome

    Gut and Psychology Syndrome, usually referred to as GAPS, is a three-part program developed by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride, a United Kingdom neurologist and nutritionist....


Biology

  • GAPs, GTPase activating protein
    GTPase activating protein

    GTPase Activating Proteins, or GAPs, or GTPase Accelerating Proteins is a family of regulatory proteins whose members can bind to activated GTP-binding proteins and stimulate their GTPase activity with the result of terminating the signaling event....
    s, a biochemical compound


Chemistry

  • GaP, Gallium(III) phosphide
    Gallium(III) phosphide

    Gallium phosphide , a phosphide of gallium, is a compound semiconductor semiconductor material with an indirect bandgap band gap of 2.26 electronvolt....
    , a semiconductor material
  • GAP, Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate
    Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate

    Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, also known as triose phosphate or 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde and abbreviated as G3P, GADP, GAP, TP, GALP or PGAL, is a chemical compound that occurs as an intermediate in several central metabolic pathways of all organisms....
    , a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle


See also

  • Gaap
    Gaap

    In demonology, Gaap is a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell, commanding sixty-six legions of demons. He is, according to The Lesser Key of Solomon, the king and prince of the southern region of Hell and Earth, and according to the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum the king of the western region and as mighty as Beleth, but for both he is th...
  • Gap theorem (disambiguation)
    Gap theorem (disambiguation)

    In mathematics, gap theorem may refer to:* The Weierstrass gap theorem.* The Hadamard gap theorem.* The gap theorem of Fourier analysis, a statement about the vanishing of discrete Fourier coefficients for functions that are identically zero on an interval shorter than 2π....