|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a
camera lens from excess light or glare.| |an arrangement of five
objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner
and one in the middle.| |1.||a break or opening in a wall,
fence, etc| |2.||a break in continuity; interruption; hiatus:
there is a serious gap in the accounts| |3.||a break in a line
of hills or mountains affording a route through| |4.||chiefly
(US) a gorge or ravine| |5.||a divergence or difference;
disparity: there is a gap between his version of the event and
hers; the generation gap| |a. a break in a magnetic circuit that
increases the inductance and saturation point of the circuit|
|b. See spark gap| |7.||bridge a gap, close a gap, fill a gap,
stop a gap to remedy a deficiency| |—vb , gaps, gapping, gapped|
|8.||(tr) to make a breach or opening in| |[C14: from Old Norse
gap chasm; related to gapa to | An opening in a structure or
surface; a cleft or breach. An interval or discontinuity in any
series or sequence. Gro