gap
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gap/ɡap/
▶noun
- 1 a break or hole in an object or between two objects.
- 2 a space, interval, or break in continuity.
– derivatives
gapped adjective,
gappy adjective (gappier, gappiest).
gapped adjective,
gappy adjective (gappier, gappiest).
'gap' also found in these Oxford entries:
aperture
- aqueduct
- breach
- break
- chock
- credibility gap
- diastema
- fill
- filler
- flash
- gape
- gapper
- gap year
- generation gap
- hag
- hiatus
- interval
- know
- lacuna
- node of Ranvier
- opening
- piston ring
- shard
- space
- spark gap
- spina bifida
- suppletion
- synapse
- trade gap
- unbridgeable
- vacuum
- wind gap
