English Dictionary
◊ GAP
gap
n 1: a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two
figures: "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread
between lending and borrowing costs" [syn: {spread}]
2: an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a
small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a
gap in the wall" [syn: {opening}]
3: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: {crack}]
4: a pass between mountain peaks [syn: {col}]
5: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was
presented without commercial breaks" [syn: {break}, {interruption},
{disruption}]
v : make an opening or gap in [syn: {breach}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ GAP
GAP
Groups Algorithms and Programming.
A system for {symbolic mathematics} for computational discrete
algebra, especially group theory, by Johannes Meier, Alice
Niemeyer, Werner Nickel, and Martin Schonert of Aachen. GAP
was designed in 1986 and implemented 1987. Version 2.4 was
released in 1988 and version 3.1 in 1992.
{Sun version (ftp://ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gap)}
["GAP 3.3 Manual, M. Schonert et al, Lehrstuhl D Math, RWTH
Aachen, 1993].
(1995-04-12)