title: Gap
text: # 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
  