Usually means: Omission of repeated sentence elements.
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  1. gapping: Merriam-Webster
  2. gapping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gapping: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gapping: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gapping, gapping: Wordnik
  6. gapping: Wiktionary
  7. gapping: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. gapping: Dictionary.com
  9. Gapping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. gapping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gapping: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. Gapping: Investopedia
  2. gapping: Legal dictionary
  3. gapping: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gapping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gapping: Medical dictionary

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  1. gapping: Idioms

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  1. gapping: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gapping)

noun:  (linguistics) A type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures, and usually elides minimally a finite verb and further any non-finite verbs that are present. Example: "Some ate bread, and others rice."
noun:  (anatomy) The formation of a gap.

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