gap

Meaning

1. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
2. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
3. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
4. A vacant space or time.
5. A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
6. A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
7. A mountain or hill pass.
8. A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
9. The regions between the outfielders.
10. The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
11. (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
12. An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
13. (slang) The vagina.

space

interest rate sensitivity gap

interest sensitivity gap

space between

water gap

loop-hole

small opening

snap off

vacant space

space character

missdistance

pause in writing

offset distance

separationism

clearance distance

breakaway gap

protector gap

roll bite

roll gap

having gaps

narrow defile

narrow gap

lyriform

cleaning between the rolls

ferme

sprace

stop

🛑

place of indeterminacy

band gap

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡæp/

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

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