GAP

'Gap' is a synonym for any hole or opening; a chasm. Many uses of the word are either literally or figuratively based on this meaning.

Contents

General

Location

Disparity

Entertainment

Acronym

Biochemistry

General

★ Gap (clothing), a United States-based fashion chain.

★ Gap (ecology), a spacing between large trees in a forest

★ Gap (landform), a way through high land, often carved by a river

★ Gäp, the Tatar-based cant language

★ Gaap, a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell in demonology

★ Gap analysis (conservation), a geographic conservation model

★ Gap Coverage, insurance to pay the difference between a car's value and the total payout for the auto loan, in the event the car is a total loss

★ Gap Band, a U.S. R&B, funk and soul music group from Tulsa, Oklahoma

★ "Mind the gap", a safety warning for users of the London Underground and the Sydney CityRail about the space between the train and the platform

★ Parasitic gap, a grammatical construction

★ Seismic gap, a segment of an active geologic fault

Location

★ Gap, Hautes-Alpes, a town in France

★ Gap, Pennsylvania, a town in the United States

★ The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

★ The Gap, New South Wales, a spectacular ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia

★ Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama and Colombia

★ Diocese of Gap, a Roman Catholic territory pertaining to Gap, Hautes-Alpes

★ Grandmother Gap is a mountain pass in North Carolina

★ Loughborough Gap, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in Loughborough, England

★ Saskatchewan, a Canadian province referred to as ''The Gap'' between Alberta and Manitoba

Disparity

★ Achievement gap, the observed disparity of educational measures between various groups

★ Credibility gap, a 1960s political term used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon Johnson administration's Vietnam War statements

★ Digital gap, differences in regular effective access to digital and information technology

★ Gender gap, psycho-social, economic, and child custody differences

★ Generation gap, a wide difference in cultural norms

★ Income gap, disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income

★ Marriage gap, disparities between those who are married and those who are single

★ Missile gap, the perceived discrepancy between the ballistic missile arsenals of the USSR and the U.S. during the Cold War

★ Opportunity gap, a market opportunity or the lack of equal opportunity

Entertainment

★ Gap Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader

★ The Gap (album), music by the Chicago-based band Joan of Arc

★ The Gap Cycle, a science fiction story, told in a series of 5 books, written by Stephen Donaldson

★ ''El Boquete'', a 2006 Argentine film (English: ''The Gap'')

Acronym

★ GAP Activity Projects. An educational charity in the UK that arranges voluntary placements abroad for school leavers.

★ ''GAP'', the license plate code for Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

★ .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge designed by Ernest Durham

★ Gamer Advisory Panel, a membership from Sony Computer Entertainment

★ Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting

★ Good Agricultural Practices, any collection of value-based agricultural practices

★ Generating Application Propositions, creating implementation examples as templates

★ Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony

★ Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display

★ GNUnet's anonymity protocol, a file sharing service for routing queries and replies

★ Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit organization

★ Great Ape Project, an international organization that campaigns to have the United Nations endorse a Declaration on Great Apes

★ Group of Applied Physics, a department of the University of Geneva

★ Groups, Algorithms and Programming, a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra

★ Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group, a terrorist group located in Italy and active during the "Years of Lead"

★ Gun Aiming Point, a point behind a battery of guns used to aim in artillery

★ Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, a land reform project in Turkey

★ Guyana Action Party, a political party in Guyana

Biochemistry

★ Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material

★ GTPase activating protein, a biochemical compound

★ Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle

★ Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, an enzyme important in both the Calvin cycle and glycolysis