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gap

noun

1 she peered through a gap in the shutters:

opening, aperture, space, breach, chink, slit, slot, vent, crack, crevice, cranny, cavity, hole, orifice, interstice, perforation, break, fracture, rift, rent, fissure, cleft, divide, discontinuity;

technical scission, grike.

2 a gap between meetings:

pause, intermission, interval, interlude, delay, break, breathing space, breather, respite, hiatus;

North American recess.

3 there appears to be a gap in our records:

omission, blank, blank space, empty space, lacuna, hiatus, void, vacuity.

4 the gap between the rich and the poor:

chasm, gulf, rift, polarity, split, separation, breach;

contrast, difference, disparity, divergence, variation, variance, imbalance, unevenness.

gap Oxford Dictionary of English