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plural gaps
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. examples
An opening allowing passage or entrance. examples
An opening that implies a breach or defect. examples
A vacant space or time. examples
A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous. examples
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack. quotations examples
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
A mountain or hill pass. examples
(Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
(baseball) The regions between the outfielders. examples
(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. quotations examples
Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap, and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
2008, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System, page 5
(Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc. examples
(genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment. examples
third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped
(transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife. examples
(transitive) To make an opening in; to breach. examples
(transitive) To check the size of a gap. examples
(New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly. quotations
2020 June 17, “'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral”, in Newstalk ZB
Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan) examples