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gapful

gapful adjective: having gaps; not gapless.

Adjective

gapful (not comparable)

  1. Having gaps; not gapless.
    • In the non-relativistic limit, the both types of accompanied gapful modes become infinitely massive, disappearing from the spectrum.045028 (2015), Michikazu Kobayashi, Muneto Nitta, “Interpolating relativistic and non-relativistic Nambu-Goldstone and Higgs modes”, in Phys. Rev. D, volume 045028

Noun

gapful (plural gapfuls)

  1. A quantity that fills a gap.
    • The spirit of a robust carnival gathering at a threshing could swoop inpulsively to serious horse-play: half a gapful of stones in a sack of oats to be carried to a loft or butting a heavy forkful of straw to " bring a man down off the ladder ".1983, Michael J. Murphy, Ulster Folk of Field and Fireside, page 107
    • The structural features of deposits, such as loosened, broken gapfuls between large boulders or segments of isolated rock masses.1985, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Erosion, Debris Flow and Disaster Prevention, page 324

Forms of gapful

pluralgapfuls

Origin of gapful

From gap + -ful.

Questions about gapful

What does gapful mean?
Gapful means having gaps; not gapless.
What part of speech is gapful?
Gapful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near gapful in the dictionary

  1. gapey
  2. gapfill
  3. gapfilled
  4. gapfilling
  5. gapfills
  6. gapful
  7. gapfuls
  8. gapicomine
  9. gapik
  10. gapiks
  11. gaping

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