Gap
# 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
