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GAP
GAP can refer to: GAP computer algebra system, for Groups, Algorithms and ProgrammingGAP, Gun Aiming Point, a point behind a battery of guns used to aim in artilleryGlock Automatic Pistol - An ammunition standard in .45 :Also see ACPGreat Ape Project, aims to give the rights and protections given to..
Gap
Gap is a synonym for any hole or opening; a chasm. Many uses of the word are either literally or figuratively based on this meaning. Gap may mean: Gap (landform), a way through high land, often carved by a river* Seismic gapGap (clothing retailer), a company in the United Statesgallium phosphide, ..
Gap, Hautes-Alpes
For other uses of "", see --> Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Départment Hautes-Alpes (préfecture) Arrondissement Gap Canton Chief town of 6 cantons INSEE 05061 Postal Code 05000 MayorCurrent Term Pierre Bernard-Reymond2001-2008 Intercommunality Longitude 0..
Gap, North Carolina
Gap is a community in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is located in Stokes County, North Carolina, approximately 5 miles WSW of Danbury, North Carolina, near Hanging Rock State Park, on North Carolina State Highway 66. External links ..
Gap, Pennsylvania
Gap is a census-designated place and town in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The population was 1,611 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 General Information2 Geography3 Demographics4 Attractions5 External links General Information ZIP code: 17527Area code: 717Local phone cod..
Gapan
Gapan may refer to Gapan City in the Philippines.GAPAN is the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the..
Gapan City
Gapan City is a 5th class city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Gapan is considered the "Footwear Capital of the North", and it is an inseparable part of the Rice Granary of the Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 89,199 people in 18,200 households. Cont..
Gaper
Gaper on the front of "Van der Pigge", a pharmacy in Haarlem. A gaper is a stone black man's head on the front of a building in the Netherlands. It is used to indicate that this building is a pharmacy. The literal translation of gaper would be yawner; the figure is always displayed with an o..
Gaperon
Gaperon Country of origin France Region, town Auvergne Source of milk Cows Pasteurized - Texture - Aging time - Certification - Gaperon is a French cheese of the Auvergne region. Gaperon is a cow's milk cheese flavored with peppercorns and garlic. S..
Gapers block
A gapers block (or gapers delay )is a traffic jam caused when drivers slow to look at an accident or other incident on, or next to the road. This term is used mainly in the Chicago area. The term is used frequently in traffic reports given in local radio and television broadcasts. See also rubber..
Gaphor
Gaphor is an open-source UML tool for the GNOME desktop environment. Gaphor uses a UML 2.0 compliant data model, can import classes from Python source code and can export high quality graphic representations of the models. Features Gaphor supports class diagrams, use case diagrams, action diagr..
Gapinge
The town centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Gapinge in the municipality of Veere. Gapinge ([51°33′N 3°38′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Veere, and lies about 6 km north of Middelburg. In 2001, ..
Gaping Gill
Gaping Gill on Ingleborough Hill is one of the deepest potholes in the Yorkshire Dales, England, and one of many entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system. The 95m deep pothole descends in two stages. A 50m shaft descends from the surface to Birkbeck's Ledge; shortly below, the shaft breaks into the..
Gapless playback
Gapless playback is the seamless playback of digital audio formats. It allows live music or consecutive tracks to be heard exactly as they are mastered, without gaps between tracks. Contents 1 Why gaps occur1.1 Compression scheme artifacts1.2 Poor design2 Optimal solution3&nbs..
Gaplus
Gaplus, far more commonly known as Galaga 3, is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1984. It runs on Namco Phozon hardware and was only known as Gaplus in Japan and Brazil. A modification kit was distributed later that changed the title screen to Galaga 3 to increase recognition among fan..
GAPO syndrome
GAPO syndrome is a rare genetic disorder. GAPO is an acronym for growth retardation, alopecia, pseudoanodontia (failure of tooth eruption), and progressive optic atrophy. External links OMIM [230740] ..
GapP
GapP is a counting complexity class, consisting of all of the functions f such that there exists a nondeterministic polynomial-time Turing machine M where, for any input x, f(x) is equal to the number of accepting paths of M minus the number of rejecting paths of M. GapP is the closure of #P under ..
GAPP
GAPP can have several meanings: Geometric-Arithmetic Parallel ProcessorThe German American Partnership Program. German school exchanges for high school students. ..
Gapper
Gapper was a computer game written to run under DOS in 1986. Gameplay The player controls the gapper, a sprite that travels along the lines of a grid of rectangles, changing them from blue to red. A rectangle that is completely surrounded by red lines becomes lit, and the player scores points a..
Gapper (mascot)
Gapper (left, with Cincinnati Reds CEO John Allen) is named after the Great American Ballpark, home of the Cincinnati Reds Born: Unknown (still a few years from maturity though) Height: 5'7" (insists he's 5'7 3/4") Weight: A few pounds short of the elevator limit Physical Aspects: Red & Fur..
Gaps
Gaps is a solitaire card game where the arrangement of cards from Deuce (a Two card) to King is the object. The game is also called Spaces, Vacancies, Clown Solitaire, Montana, or Blue Moon. The game starts with all cards dealt on the tableau into four rows of thirteen. The aces removed and discard..
Gapuwiyak, Northern Territory
Gapuwiyak (called Lake Evella in English) is an Australian Aboriginal Community located in north east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Gapuwiyak Supports a vibrant community of Aboriginal people from many different families or clans. Lake Evella is situated at the bottom of the community. The comm..
Gapyeong Canada Monument
The Gapyeong Canada Monument is a monument erected to commemorate to sacrifice of Canadian during the Korean war, especially at the Battle of Kapyong. External links [[http://www.lifeinkorea.com/culture/Korean-War/UN2.cfm#txt03 http://www.lifeinkorea.com/culture/Korean-War/UN2.cfm]][[http://www.gp..
Gapyeong County
Hangul: 가평군 Hanja: 加平郡 Revised Romanization: Gapyeong-gun McCune-Reischauer: Kap'yŏng-gun Statistics Area: 843.26 km² Population: 55,415 2003 registration Pop. density: 65.7 people/km² Administrative divisions..
Gap (clothing retailer)
Gap, Inc. NYSE: [GPS] is the largest specialty retailer in the United States. Their headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. Its namesake chain, Gap (originally The Gap), operates in the U.S. as well as in Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Japan. Gap Inc. also owns and run..
Gap (ecology)
In ecology, a gap or canopy gap is an opening in the forest canopy structure devoid of large trees. Gaps are formed after large trees die and fall and allows the regrowth trees and other plants as the shade is removed. See also DisturbanceEcological successionForest ecology ..
Gap analysis
Gap analysis is a business assessment tool enabling a company to compare its actual performance with its potential performance. This provides the company with insight to areas which have room for improvement. The process involves determining, documenting and approving the variance between business ..
Gap Band
The Gap Band are an American R&B, funk and soul music group who rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s with their heavily-charged dance anthems and their sentimental and ethereal love songs. Comprised of brothers Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson, the band first formed as the Greenwood, Archer and ..
Gap buffer
A gap buffer is a data structure used to store long arrays compactly, while still allowing efficient insertion and deletion operations, provided that the operations are clustered near the same location. Gap buffers are especially common in text editors, where most changes to the text occur at or ..
GAP computer algebra system
This article is about a software package. For other uses see Gap (disambiguation). GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on, but not restricted to, computational group theory. GAP was developed at Lehrstuhl..
Gap Creationism
Part of the series onCreationism ..
Gap Creek
Gap Creek (1999, ISBN 1565122429) is a novel by Robert Morgan, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in January of 2000. Gap Creek is a story about a strong young woman trying to make sense of the events in her life; death, marriage and parenthood don't dampen her spirits. ..
Gap fillers
Gap fillers are an element of the Thermal Protection System on the Space Shuttle. The TPS is comprised, in part, by tiles that deflect the heat generated by the friction of re-entry away from the spacecraft. There are doors and moving surfaces in areas that must be protected from heat, and this ..
Gap financing
Gap Financing is a term mostly associated with mortgage or property loans. It is an interim loan given to finance the difference between the floor loan and the maximum permanent loan as committed. ..
Gap Hypothesis
The gap hypothesis is the hypothesis that states that parts of active faults that have had relatively few earthquakes are likely to be the sites of strong earthquakes. The Loma Prieta Previous to 1989, there had been a seismic gap below Santa Cruz, California. In 1988, seismologists predicted there..
Gap junction
A gap junction is a junction between certain animal cell-types that allows different molecules and ions to pass freely between cells. The junction connects the cytoplasm of cells. One Gap junction is composed of two connexons (or hemichannels) which connect across the intercellular space. They a..
Gap Mangione
Gaspare "Gap" Mangione (born 1938) is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, New York. Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments. I..
Gap of Rohan
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Gap of Rohan is the opening between the mountain ranges of the Misty Mountains (Hithaeglir) and the White Mountains (Ered Nimrais). Through the Gap of Rohan flowed the rivers Isen and Adorn, which formed the effective boundary of the Kin..
Gap penalty
Gap penalties are used during sequence alignment. Gap penalties contribute to the overall score of alignments, and therefore, the size of the gap penalty relative to the entries in the similarity matrix affects the alignment that is finally selected. Selecting a higher gap penalty will cause less fa..
Gap Sk8er 2
Gap Sk8er 2 is a Freeware Windows skateboarding game which was written by Shawn Kilmer and released in 1998. The game was designed to run on Windows 95 486 machines with a resolution of 640x480. The game appears very small and is sped up when run on modern machines. Distribution and appearances..
Gap theorem
See also Gap theorem (disambiguation) for other gap theorems in mathematics. In computational complexity theory the Gap theorem is an important theorem about the complexity of computable functions. The theorem was proved independently by Boris Trakhtenbrot in 1964 and Allan Borodin in 1972. The th..
Gap theorem (disambiguation)
In mathematics, gap theorem may refer to: The Weierstrass gap theorem.The Hadamard gap theorem.The gap theorem of Fourier analysis, a statement about the vanishing of discrete Fourier coefficients for functions that are identically zero on an interval shorter than [2\pi].The gap theorem i..
Gap wedge
A gap wedge is a type of golf club used to hit a shot with higher and shorter trajectory than a pitching wedge. During the 1990s, improvements in manufacturing enabled recreational golfers to hit iron shots much more accurately. Consequently, manufacturers delofted their irons to allow for great..
Gap year
The term gap year (also known as "year out", "deferring", "Overseas Experience") is a prolonged period (often, but not always, a year) between a student's completion of secondary school and matriculation in college or university, or also between college and graduate school or a profession. It is gen..
Ga people
The Ga are an ethnic group indigenous to the West African nation of Ghana. Having a language very similar to that of the Dangme, another Ghanaian ethnic group, the Ga are grouped as part of the Ga-Dangme ethnolinguistic group. There are about 600,000 Ga speakers, making up about 3% of Ghana's popu..
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