Air Gap

Air gap may refer to:

  • Transformer#Practical considerations used in transformers to limit short-circuit current
  • Air gap (networking) in computer networks to isolate sections physically
  • Air gap (plumbing) in context of plumbing
  • Mid-Atlantic gap was the area not covered by American, British or Canadian air support during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II
  • Airgap (microelectronics) a microelectronics fabrication technique
  • The space between magnetic pole pieces in which a voice coil operates

Famous quotes containing the words air and/or gap:

    “He who will one day teach men to fly will have displaced all boundary stones; the boundary stones themselves will fly up into the air to him, and he will rebaptize the earth—as “the weightless.””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn less because they do the housework.”
    —Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)