Usually means: Space or difference between things.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. gap: Merriam-Webster
  2. gap, gap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gap, gap: Wordnik
  7. gap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. GAP, gap: Wiktionary
  9. gap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. GAP: Dictionary.com
  13. gap: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GAP (brand), GAP (computer algebra system), GAP (software), GAP, Gap (American football), Gap (chart pattern), Gap (clothing), Gap (clothing retailer), Gap (ecology), Gap (landform), Gap, The Gap (Bryn Haworth album), The Gap (Joan of Arc album), The Gap (Sydney), The Gap (Thompson Twins song), The Gap (book), The Gap (clothing retailer), The Gap (film), The Gap (magazine), The Gap (song), The Gap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gap: Rhymezone
  19. gap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GAP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. G.A.P, GAP, GaP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. gap: FreeDictionary.org
  24. gap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. gap, gap (imagery): TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. gap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. gap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. gap: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Gap: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Gap: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  6. gap: Finance-Glossary.com
  7. Gap: Investopedia
  8. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  9. Gap (disambiguation), The Gap (disambiguation), The Gap, gap: Legal dictionary
  10. Gap (disambiguation), The Gap (disambiguation), The Gap, gap: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GAP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. GAP: Netlingo
  3. Gap (disambiguation), The Gap (disambiguation), The Gap, gap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gap: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Gap (disambiguation), The Gap (disambiguation), The Gap, gap: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. GAP: Acronym Finder
  2. GAP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. gap: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gap: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Gap: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gap, gap, gap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. G.A.P, G.A.P, Gap, The Gap: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gap: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Gap: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. GAP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See gaping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
noun:  An opening allowing passage or entrance.
noun:  An opening that implies a breach or defect.
noun:  A vacant space or time.
noun:  A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
noun:  A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
noun:  A mountain or hill pass.
noun:  (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
noun:  (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
noun:  (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
noun:  (Australia, usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
noun:  (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
noun:  (slang, euphemistic) The vagina.
verb:  (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
verb:  (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
verb:  (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
verb:  (New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, US, slang, dated) To stare or gape.
noun:  A town, the capital of the department of Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
noun:  Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan) [(India, colloquial) Gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather.]
noun:  Initialism of Great Ape Project.

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