Gap \Gap\ (g[a^]p), n. [OE. gap; cf. Icel. gap an empty space,
   Sw. gap mouth, breach, abyss, Dan. gab mouth, opening, AS.
   geap expanse; as adj., wide, spacious. See Gape.]
   1. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a
      gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an
      opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space
      or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
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            Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap.
                                                  --Knolles.
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            It would make a great gap in your own honor. --Shak.
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   2. (A["e]ronautics) The vertical distance between two
      superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.
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   Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the
      bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter.
      

   To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the
      protection of something; to make defense against any
      assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender
      or supporter.

   To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.
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	Gap \Gap\, v. t.
   1. To notch, as a sword or knife.
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   2. To make an opening in; to breach.
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            Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. --Tennyson.
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	gap
    n 1: a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two
         figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread
         between lending and borrowing costs" [syn: gap, spread]
    2: an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a
       small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap
       in the wall" [syn: opening, gap]
    3: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: gap,
       crack]
    4: a pass between mountain peaks [syn: col, gap]
    5: a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between
       two opinions or two views or two situations
    6: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was
       presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his
       account" [syn: break, interruption, disruption, gap]
    v 1: make an opening or gap in [syn: gap, breach]

	

	171 Moby Thesaurus words for "gap":
   abysm, abyss, aperture, arrearage, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade,
   bottoms, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broaching, burst,
   caesura, canyon, cavity, cessation, chap, chasm, check, chimney,
   chink, chip, clearing, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough,
   clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut,
   cut apart, cwm, dale, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit,
   defile, dehisce, delay, dell, difference, dike, dingle,
   disagreement, disclosure, discontinuity, discrepancy, disparity,
   disruption, distance, distinction, ditch, divergence, division,
   donga, draw, excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw,
   flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, furrow, gape, gash, gat, gill,
   glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, halt, hang open,
   hiatus, hole, hollow, incise, incision, inconsistency, inlet,
   interim, intermission, interruption, interspace, interval,
   intervale, joint, kloof, lack, lacuna, laying open, leak, letup,
   lull, lunar rill, missing link, moat, need, notch, nullah,
   omission, open, opening, opening up, orifice, oscitate, outage,
   outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pause, pore, ravine, recess,
   rent, respite, rest, rift, rime, rip, rive, rupture, scale,
   scissure, seam, separation, shortage, slash, slice, slit, slot,
   space, splinter, split, stoma, stop, strath, suspension, tear,
   throwing open, trench, trough, ullage, uncorking, unstopping, vale,
   valley, void, wadi, wait, want, wantage, yawn

	

	GAP
       Generic Access Profile (DECT, Europe, Bluetooth)

	

	GAP
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	GAP

    Groups Algorithms and Programming.

   A system for symbolic mathematics for computational discrete
   algebra, especially group theory, by Johannes Meier, Alice
   Niemeyer, Werner Nickel, and Martin Schonert of Aachen.  GAP
   was designed in 1986 and implemented 1987.  Version 2.4 was
   released in 1988 and version 3.1 in 1992.

   Sun version (ftp://ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gap).

   ["GAP 3.3 Manual, M. Schonert et al, Lehrstuhl D Math, RWTH
   Aachen, 1993].

   (1995-04-12)

	

	Gap
   a rent or opening in a wall (Ezek. 13:5; comp. Amos 4:3). The
   false prophets did not stand in the gap (Ezek. 22: 30), i.e.,
   they did nothing to stop the outbreak of wickedness.

	

	Gap, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
   Population (2000):    1611
   Housing Units (2000): 597
   Land area (2000):     2.794488 sq. miles (7.237690 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    2.794488 sq. miles (7.237690 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            28376
   Located within:       Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
   Location:             39.987360 N, 76.019254 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     17527
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Gap, PA
    Gap