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 G Adventures, formerly Gap Adventures, Canadian travel company Gap Analysis Program, on wildlife health Gap Broadcasting Group Gap FC, a French football club Gap Inc., a clothing store chain Global Animal Partnership, for animal welfare Government Accountability Project, for US whistleblower protection Great Ape Project, 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 Guyana Action Party Southeastern Anatolia Project (), a regional development project in Turkey The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 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, 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, an Iranian messaging app Gap year, a prolonged period between life stages .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
See also Gap theorem (disambiguation) Gaps (disambiguation) The Gap (disambiguation) GAAP (disambiguation)