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

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

Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
G Adventures, formerly Gap Adventures, Canadian travel company
Gap Analysis Project, a US government project for wildlife conservation
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 (Grupo de Amigos Personales), 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
Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian resistance group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Guyana Action Party
Southeastern Anatolia Project (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi), a regional development project in Turkey
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, ticker symbol GAP

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

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

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