Gap or The Gap may refer to various openings, vacant spaces, lacks or pauses:

Natural features

Gap (landform) A gap is a geological formation that is a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range. It may be called a col, notch, mountain pass, pass, saddle (landform), saddle, water gap, or wind gap. geomorphology, Geo ...

, a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range *

Treefall gap A treefall gap is a distinguishable hole in the canopy of a forest with vertical sides extending through all levels down to an average height of above ground. These holes occur as result of a fallen tree or large limb. The ecologist who develop ...

, a spacing between large trees in a forest

Places

* Gap, Alberta, Canada *

Gap, Hautes-Alpes Gap (, ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Hautes-Alpes, in the Regions of France, region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southeastern France. In 2019, the Communes of France, commune had a popul ...

, France * Gap, North Carolina, United States *

Gap, Pennsylvania Gap is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a ZIP code of 17527. The population was 1,931 at the 2010 census. U.S. Route 30 passes through the ...

, United States *

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; ) is an Northern Limestone Alps, Alpine mountain resort, ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen (district), district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ...

, 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 Air Philippines Corporation, operating as PAL Express and formerly branded as Air Philippines and Airphil Express, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Philippine Airlines. It is PAL's regional brand, with services from its hubs in Manila, Clark, Ce ...

, ICAO designator GAP * G Adventures, formerly Gap Adventures, Canadian travel company * Gap Analysis Program, on wildlife health * Gap Broadcasting Group *

Gap FC Gap Hautes-Alpes Football Club (Occitan ''Gap Auts-Aups''; commonly referred to as simply Gap) was a French semi-professional association football club based in Gap, the capital city of the Hautes-Alpes department. The club was formed in 1970 a ...

, a French football club *

Gap Inc. The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc., is an American multinational clothing and accessories retailer. Gap was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates fou ...

, a clothing store chain * Global Animal Partnership, for animal welfare *

Government Accountability Project The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a nonprofit whistleblower Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or publi ...

, for US whistleblower protection *

Great Ape Project The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights ...

, advocating legal rights for great apes * Group of Personal Friends (), 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 * (Partisan Action Group), an Italian resistance group founded by

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (; 19 June 1926 – 14 March 1972) was an influential Italian publisher, businessman, and political activist who was active in the period between the Second World War and Italy's Years of Lead. He founded a vast library ...

Guyana Action Party The Guyana Action Party (GAP) is a left-wing political party in Guyana representing the indigenous Amerindian population. History The GAP was established in January 1989 as Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD).Tom Lansford (2014) ' ...

Southeastern Anatolia Project The Southeastern Anatolia Project (, GAP) is a multi-sector integrated regional development project based on the concept of sustainable development for the 9 million people (2023) living in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey, Southeastern An ...

(), a regional development project in Turkey *

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain store, chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and, until ...

, ticker symbol GAP

Science and technology

Band gap In solid-state physics and solid-state chemistry, a band gap, also called a bandgap or energy gap, is an energy range in a solid where no electronic states exist. In graphs of the electronic band structure of solids, the band gap refers to t ...

or "energy gap", the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate * Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material *

Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, also known as triose phosphate or 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde and abbreviated as G3P, GA3P, GADP, GAP, TP, GALP or PGAL, is a metabolite that occurs as an intermediate in several central pathways of all organisms.Nelson, D ...

, 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 protein GTPase-activating proteins or GTPase-accelerating proteins (GAPs) are a family of regulatory proteins whose members can bind to activated G proteins and stimulate their GTPase activity, with the result of terminating the signaling event. GAPs are a ...

s, a family of regulatory proteins

Linguistics

* Gap,

accidental gap In linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite being t ...

, 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 In linguistics, gapping is a type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures. Gapping usually elides minimally a finite verb and further any non-finite verbs that are present. This material is "gapped" from the n ...

Parasitic gap Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The ent ...

, a kind of correlated ellipsis

Mathematics and computer science and technology

Air gap (networking) An air gap, air wall, air gapping or disconnected network is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an ...

, a security measure *

GAP (computer algebra system) GAP ( Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is an open source computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory. History GAP was developed at Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik (LDFM), R ...

(Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package *

Generalized assignment problem In applied mathematics, the maximum generalized assignment problem is a problem in combinatorial optimization. This problem is a generalization of the assignment problem in which both tasks and agents have a size. Moreover, the size of each tas ...

Generic access profile The Generic Access Profile (GAP) (ETSI standard EN 300 444) describes a set of mandatory requirements to allow any conforming DECT Fixed Part (base) to interoperate with any conforming DECT Portable Part (handset) to provide basic telephony servic ...

, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony * Gimp Animation Package, an extension for the GIMP *

Graph automorphism In the mathematical field of graph theory, an automorphism of a graph is a form of symmetry in which the graph is mapped onto itself while preserving the edge– vertex connectivity. Formally, an automorphism of a graph is a permutation of th ...

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, an Iranian messaging app *

Gap year A gap year, also known as a sabbatical year, is a period of time when students take a break from their studies, usually after completing high school or before beginning graduate school. During this time, students engage in a variety of educatio ...

, a prolonged period between life stages * .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge