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noun
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an empty space or interval; interruption in continuity; hiatus: a momentary gap in a siren's wailing; a gap in his memory.
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a wide divergence or difference; disparity: the gap between expenses and income; the gap between ideals and actions.
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a difference or disparity in attitudes, perceptions, character, or development, or a lack of confidence or understanding, perceived as creating a problem: the technology gap; a communications gap.
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EXPANDa deep, sloping ravine or cleft through a mountain ridge.
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Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a mountain pass: the Cumberland Gap.
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COLLAPSEAeronautics. the distance between one supporting surface of an airplane and another above or below it.
verb (used with object)
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to make a gap, opening, or breach in.
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Gaps
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verb (used without object)
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to come open or apart; form or show a gap.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Old Norse gap chasm
1350–1400; Middle English < Old Norse gap chasm
Related forms
gap·less, adjective
Synonyms
2. pause, interstice, break, interlude, lull.
2. pause, interstice, break, interlude, lull.
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Word Origin & History
gap
1261, from O.N. gap "chasm," related to gapa "to gape." Originally "hole in a wall;" broader sense is 16c. In U.S., common in place names in ref. to a break or pass in a long mountain chain (especially one that water flows through).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
gap (gāp)
n.
An opening in a structure or surface; a cleft or breach.
An interval or discontinuity in any series or sequence.
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