gap
[gap] 
noun, verb, gapped, gap⋅ping.| 1. | a break or opening, as in a fence, wall, or military line; breach: We found a gap in the enemy's line of fortifications. |
| 2. | an empty space or interval; interruption in continuity; hiatus: a momentary gap in a siren's wailing; a gap in his memory. |
| 3. | a wide divergence or difference; disparity: the gap between expenses and income; the gap between ideals and actions. |
| 4. | 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. |
| 5. | a deep, sloping ravine or cleft through a mountain ridge. |
| 6. | Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a mountain pass: the Cumberland Gap. |
| 7. | Aeronautics. the distance between one supporting surface of an airplane and another above or below it. |
| 8. | to make a gap, opening, or breach in. |
| 9. | to come open or apart; form or show a gap. |
1350–1400; ME < ON gap chasm
Related forms:
2. pause, interstice, break, interlude, lull.
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| gap (gāp) n.
v. tr. To make an opening in. v. intr. To be or become open. [Middle English, from Old Norse, chasm.] |
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Gap
Gap\, 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.] 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. Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap. --Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. --Shak. 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.Gap
Gap\, v. t. 1. To notch, as a sword or knife. 2. To make an opening in; to breach. Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. --Tennyson.Gap
Gap\, n. (A["e]ronautics) The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.Cite This Source
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Gap
When the price of a stock moves very sharply up or down with no trading in between. Therefore, the chart shows a break between the prices (no line connecting).
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An example of a gap is a stock that goes from $50 to $55 with no trading occurring between these two prices.
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See also: Breakaway Gap, Exhaustion Gap, Runaway Gap, Stock
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gap
- A price range in which no shares are traded. A gap on a chart is created when the lowest price at which a security trades on one day is above the highest price at which the same security was traded on the previous day. Thus, if a stock trades between a low of $51 and a high of $52.50 on Monday and between $53.50 and $54 on the following day, a gap from $52.50 to $53.50 is created on a chartist's graph. A gap may have varying degrees of significance, depending on the general formation and the volume at the time the gap occurs. Also called price gap. See also breakaway gap, exhaustion gap, runaway gap.
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Main Entry: gap
Pronunciation: 'gap
Function: noun
: a break in continuity especially of structure :
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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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GAP mathematics, tool
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.
["GAP 3.3 Manual, M. Schonert et al, Lehrstuhl D Math, RWTH Aachen, 1993].
(1995-04-12)
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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.
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Gap
town, capital of the Hautes-Alpes departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, southeastern France, south-southeast of Grenoble. Situated at an elevation of 2,406 feet (733 metres) in a valley on the right bank of the Luye, a tributary of the Durance, it is a thriving tourist centre surrounded by mountains that attracts visitors in both the summer and the winter. Through the town pass the main road from Briancon to the Rhone Valley and the Route Napoleon-the road that Napoleon took in 1815 when he crossed the Alps into France on his return from exile on Elba. Gap was the first place where he was well received. Known as Vapincum to the Romans, the town was founded by the Roman emperor Augustus in about 14 BC. The town remained under episcopal rule until 1512, when it was annexed by France. In addition to being a tourist destination, Gap is an administrative and commercial centre with a number of light industries (computers, biotechnology). Its relative isolation is reduced by the highway that links Gap to Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. Pop. (1999) 36,262; (2005 est.) 38,200
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