Gap

22 definitions retrieved

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 \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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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
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]

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
Generic Access Profile (DECT, Europe, Bluetooth)

GAP
Generic Address Parameter

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 (CDP, FIPS 28376)
Location: 39.98894 N, 76.02423 W
Population (1990): 1226 (490 housing units)
Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 17527

gap [geip]
Leerstelle; Lücke

gap [geip]
brèche

gap

hézag
nyílás
rés
ûr

gap [geip]
brecha, fenda

gap [geip]
брешь

gap
abyss; chasm; gulf; precipice
jaws; mouth; muzzle

gap

Kluft f
gap

Lücke f; Leerstelle f
gap

Lücke f
gap
(in one's teeth)
Zahnlücke f
gap

Abstand m; Zeitspanne f

GAP
: Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik
CAP : Common Agricultural Policy

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

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

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