Gap
Encyclopedia
General
- Gap (ecology)Gap (ecology)In forest ecology, a treefall gap is an opening in the forest canopy structure devoid of large trees. Gaps are formed after large trees die and fall which allows the regrowth trees and other plants as the shade is removed.-References:...
, a spacing between large trees in a forest - Gap (landform), a mountain pass, often carved by a river
- Gap yearGap yearAn expression or phrase that is associated with taking time out to travel in between life stages. It is also known as sabbatical, time off and time out that refers to a period of time in which students disengage from curricular education and undertake non curricular activities, such as travel or...
, a prolonged period between a life stage
Places
- Gap, Hautes-AlpesGap, Hautes-AlpesGap is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Hautes-Alpes department.-Geography:An Alpine crossroads at the intersection of D994 and Route nationale 85 the Route Napoléon, Gap lies above sea level along the right bank of the Luye River...
, France - Gap, PennsylvaniaGap, PennsylvaniaGap is a census-designated place and town in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with a zip code of 17527. The population was 1,611 at the 2000 census...
, United States - The Gap, QueenslandThe Gap, QueenslandThe Gap is a leafy and hilly suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia, located approximately 11 km west of the Brisbane CBD.-Geography:...
, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - The Gap, New South WalesThe Gap, New South WalesThe Gap is an ocean cliff, in eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the eastern suburb of Watsons Bay, in the Municipality of Woollahra, near South Head....
, farming community in the central east part of the Riverina close to Wagga Wagga - The Gap (Sydney), an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Cumberland GapCumberland GapCumberland Gap is a pass through the Cumberland Mountains region of the Appalachian Mountains, also known as the Cumberland Water Gap, at the juncture of the U.S. states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia...
, a pass through the Cumberland Mountains at the juncture of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia - Loughborough GapLoughborough GapThe Loughborough Gap is a short, disused section of the former Great Central Main Line in the northeastern corner of Loughborough, England, between the northern and southern sections of the present-day Great Central Railway. The formation originally consisted of an embankment and three bridges: two...
, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England - Mid-Atlantic GapMid-Atlantic gapThe Mid-Atlantic Gap was the gap in coverage by land-based Coastal Command antisubmarine aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. It is frequently known as The Black Pit, as well as the Atlantic Gap, Air Gap, Greenland Gap, or just "the Gap". This resulted in heavy...
, in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage - Garmisch-PartenkirchenGarmisch-PartenkirchenGarmisch-Partenkirchen is a mountain resort town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, and the district is on the border with Austria...
, Germany, license plate code GAP - Darien GapDarién GapThe Darién Gap is a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama's Darién Province in Central America from Colombia in South America. It measures just over long and about wide. Roadbuilding through this area is expensive, and the environmental toll is steep. Political...
, Central America, the terrain feature that has prevented a roadway from being built that connects North and South America
Entertainment
- The Gap Band, an American music group
- Gap MangioneGap MangioneGaspare "Gap" Mangione is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, New York, United States.Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments...
, jazz pianist and bandleader - The Gap (Joan of Arc album), a 2000 album by Joan of Arc
- The Gap CycleThe Gap CycleThe Gap Cycle is a science fiction story, told in a series of 5 books, written by Stephen R. Donaldson. It is an epic set in a future where humans have pushed far out into space in the name of commerce and follows two concurrent story arcs...
, a science fiction novel series by Stephen Donaldson - El BoqueteEl BoqueteEl boquete is a 2006 Argentine comedy drama film directed and written by Mariano Mucci. It stars Valentina Bassi and Daniel Valenzuela.-Synopsis:...
(The Gap), a 2006 Argentine film - Gap FCGap FCGap Hautes-Alpes Football Club is a French association football club based in Gap, the capital city of the Hautes-Alpes department. The club was formed in 1970 as a result of a merger between Sporting Club Olympique Gapençais and CSL Louis Jean and currently play in the Championnat de France...
, a French football club - G.A.P AdventuresG.A.P AdventuresG Adventures is the largest adventure travel company in Canada and offers socially and environmentally sensitive travel. Bruce Poon Tip launched G Adventures in 1990 with the intention of offering travelers authentic adventures in the real world...
, the largest adventure travel company in Canada
Mathematics and technology
- GAP computer algebra systemGAP computer algebra systemGAP is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.-History:...
(Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package - Generic access profileGeneric access profileThe Generic Access Profile describes a set of mandatory requirements to allow any conforming DECT Fixed Part to interoperate with any conforming DECT Portable Part in order to provide basic telephony services when attached to a 3.1 kHz telephone network .The objective of GAP is to ensure...
, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony - Graph automorphism problem
- Gimp Animation Package, a plug-in for the GIMPGIMPGIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
Science
- GaP, Gallium(III) phosphideGallium(III) phosphideGallium phosphide , a phosphide of gallium, is a compound semiconductor material with an indirect band gap of 2.26 eV. The polycrystalline material has the appearance of pale orange pieces. Undoped single crystal wafers appear clear orange, but strongly doped wafers appear darker due to...
, a semiconductor material - GAP, Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphateGlyceraldehyde 3-phosphateGlyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, also known as triose phosphate or 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde and abbreviated as G3P, GADP, GAP, TP, GALP or PGAL, is a chemical compound that occurs as an intermediate in several central metabolic pathways of all organisms...
, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle - GAPs, GTPase activating proteinGTPase activating proteinGTPase-Activating Proteins, or GAPs, or GTPase-Accelerating Proteins 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...
s, a family of regulatory proteins - Gap or Accidental gapAccidental gapIn linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap or a hole in the pattern, is a word or other form that does not exist in some language but which would be expected to exist given the grammatical rules of the language. For example, in English a noun may be formed by adding the suffix -al to a...
, a form predicted by grammatical rules but missing from a language - Gap junctionGap junctionA gap junction or nexus is a specialized intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types. It directly connects the cytoplasm of two cells, which allows various molecules and ions to pass freely between cells....
or nexus is a specialized intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types - Band gapBand gapIn solid state physics, a band gap, also called an energy gap or bandgap, is an energy range in a solid where no electron states can exist. In graphs of the electronic band structure of solids, the band gap generally refers to the energy difference between the top of the valence band and the...
or energy gap, the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate
Organizations and businesses
- Gap (clothing retailer)Gap (clothing retailer)The Gap, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta. As of September 2008,...
, a chain of retail clothing stores - Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer, ticker symbol GAP
- Government Accountability ProjectGovernment Accountability ProjectThe Government Accountability Project is a leading United States whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating of whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, GAP’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability...
, a United States nonprofit organization - Genocide Awareness ProjectGenocide Awareness ProjectThe Genocide Awareness Project is a movable pro-life display being temporarily installed on multiple university campuses in the United States and Canada since 1997. The display includes pictures of aborted fetuses juxtaposed next to pictures of abused animals and victims of genocide...
, a movable pro-life display - Great Ape ProjectGreat Ape ProjectThe Great Ape Project , founded in 1994, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and other experts who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos,...
, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes - Group for the Advancement of PsychiatryGroup for the Advancement of PsychiatryThe Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry is an American professional organization of psychiatrists dedicated to shaping psychiatric thinking, public programs and clinical practice in mental health. Its 29 committees meet semi-annually and choose their own topics for exploration...
, an American psychiatric professional organization - Air PhilippinesAir PhilippinesAir Philippines Corporation, now operating as Airphil Express , is a low-cost airline based in Pasay City, in the Philippines. It operates both domestic and international scheduled services from Manila, Cebu, Davao and Zamboanga. The airline was re-branded for a number of times, first as Air...
, ICAO designator GAP - Southeastern Anatolia ProjectSoutheastern Anatolia ProjectThe Southeastern Anatolia Project is a multi-sector integrated regional development project based on the concept of sustainable development for the 9 million people living in the Southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey...
(Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi), a regional development project in Turkey - Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo FeltrinelliGiangiacomo FeltrinelliGiangiacomo Feltrinelli was an Italian publisher and left-wing political activist. He founded the publishing house Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore in 1954. He was also a communist and founded the GAP militant grouping in 1970...
- Good Agricultural PracticesGood Agricultural PracticesThe term Good Agricultural Practices can refer to any collection of specific methods, which when applied to agriculture, produces results that are in harmony with the values of the proponents of those practices...
A way of reducing the use of pesticides without forbidding them - Gap Analysis ProgramGap Analysis ProgramThe Gap Analysis Program is a nationwide program in the United States to assess and support the overall conservation status of wildlife. The program is directed and coordinated under the United States Geological Survey, but is implemented in coordination with state and regional programs.GAP works...
A Federally-coordinated program operated in conjunction with states and regions to assess the overall health of wildlife - Gap Central Broadcasting Formerly known as Gap Broadcasting, often capitalized as GAP
- Grupo Aeroportuario del PacíficoGrupo Aeroportuario del PacificoGrupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico is a private airport operator holding group in Mexico. It is a federal government-owned corporation with its own equity capital and legal identity...
, an airport operator holding group in Mexico
Other uses
- George Andreas PapandreouGeorge PapandreouGeorgios A. Papandreou , commonly anglicised to George and shortened to Γιώργος in Greek, is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece following his party's victory in the 2009 legislative election...
, Prime Minister of Greece - .45 GAP.45 GAPThe .45 G.A.P. pistol cartridge was designed by Ernest Durham, an engineer with CCI/Speer, at the request of firearms manufacturer Glock to provide a cartridge that would equal the power of the .45 ACP but was shorter to fit in a more compact handgun, and with a stronger case head to reduce the...
, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge - Good Agricultural PracticesGood Agricultural PracticesThe term Good Agricultural Practices can refer to any collection of specific methods, which when applied to agriculture, produces results that are in harmony with the values of the proponents of those practices...
, any collection of value-based agricultural practices - Gaps (Technical analysis)Gaps (Technical analysis)A gap is defined as an unfilled space or interval. On a technical analysis chart, a gap represents an area where no trading takes place. On the Japanese candlestick chart, a window is interpreted as a gap....
, areas where no trading occurs in the stock market - Gap insuranceGap insuranceGAP Insurance is also known as Guaranteed Auto Protection, and simply known as GAP within the North American financial industry. The proper term is GAP Coverage. There are two ways of getting GAP Coverage. The first type is an actual insurance policy sold by a licensed insurance broker. The...
, a type of vehicle insurance
See also
- GAAPGaapIn demonology, Gaap is a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell, commanding sixty-six legions of demons. He is, according to The Lesser Key of Solomon, the king and prince of the southern region of Hell and Earth, and according to the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum the king of the western region and...
, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles - GaapGaapIn demonology, Gaap is a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell, commanding sixty-six legions of demons. He is, according to The Lesser Key of Solomon, the king and prince of the southern region of Hell and Earth, and according to the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum the king of the western region and...
, in demonology - Gap theorem (disambiguation)Gap theorem (disambiguation)In mathematics, gap theorem may refer to:* The Weierstrass gap theorem.* The Hadamard gap theorem.* The gap theorem of Fourier analysis, a statement about the vanishing of discrete Fourier coefficients for functions that are identically zero on an interval shorter than 2π.* The gap theorem in...
- Gaps (disambiguation)Gaps (disambiguation)Gaps is a card game. Gaps may also refer to:*Gaps , an album by Monster Bobby*Gaps , a Japanese company*GAPs, or GTPase activating protein, a protein molecule...