Gap

Gap or The Gap may refer to:

 General 
 Gap (clothing retailer), a chain of clothing stores
 Gap (ecology), a spacing between large trees in a forest
 Gap (landform), a mountain pass, often carved by a river
 Gap year, a prolonged period between a life stage
 Gäp, the Tatar-based cant language
 Gaap, a mighty Prince and Great President of Hell in demonology
 Gap coverage, a type of vehicle insurance
 Band gap or energy gap, the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate

 Places 
 Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
 Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
 The Gap, Brecon Beacons, an ancient mountain trail in the Brecon Beacons, Wales
 The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
 The Gap, New South Wales, an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
 Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama and Colombia
 Loughborough Gap, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England
 Fulda Gap, an area in Germany of strategic importance during the cold war
 Mid-Atlantic Gap, in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage

 Entertainment 
 The Gap Band, an American music group
 Gap Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader
 The Gap (album), a 2000 album by Joan of Arc
 The Gap Cycle, a science fiction novel series by Stephen Donaldson
 El Boquete (The Gap), a 2006 Argentine film
 Gap FC, a French football club

 Acronym 
 .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
 GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, standard guidelines for financial accounting
 GAP, Good Agricultural Practices, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
 GAP, Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
 GAP, Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
 GAP, Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit organization
 GAP, Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
 GAP computer algebra system (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
 GAP, Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi (Southeastern Anatolia Project), a land reform project in Turkey
 GAP, the license plate code for Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
 GAP, Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
 Graph automorphism problem
 Air Philippines (ICAO designator)

 Chemistry 
 GaP, Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material
 GAPs, GTPase activating proteins, a biochemical compound
 GAP, Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle