Gap

Gap or The Gap may refer to:

General

• Gap (clothing retailer), a chain of 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
• Gaap, a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell in demonology
• 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, Brecon Beacons, an ancient mountain trail in the Brecon Beacons, Wales
• The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• The Gap, New South Wales, an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
• Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama and Colombia
• Loughborough Gap, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England
• Fulda Gap, an area in Germany of strategic importance during the cold war
• Mid-Atlantic Gap, in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage

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

Acronym

• .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
• GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, standard guidelines for financial accounting
• GAP, Good Agricultural Practices, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
• GAP, Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
• GAP, Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
• GAP, Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit organization
• GAP, Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
• GAP computer algebra system (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
• GAP, Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi (Southeastern Anatolia Project), a land reform project in Turkey
• GAP, the license plate code for Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
• GAP, Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
• Graph automorphism problem
• Air Philippines (ICAO designator)

Chemistry

• GaP, Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material
• GAPs, GTPase activating proteins, a biochemical compound
• GAP, Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle