gapped

1. 1
   adjective

   Having one or more openings or breaks where material or content would otherwise be continuous.

   His gapped molars made it difficult to chew tough meat.

   Inspectors found the bridge railing was gapped at several of its joints.

   Similarbroken, discontinuous, patchy

   Oppositecontinuous, unbroken, seamless

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of gap.

   The technician gapped the electrodes to the manufacturer's specification.

   Cracks in the plaster gapped further after the tremor.

   Note

   The final p doubles before -ed, and the one form serves every use of the verb: a blade gapped by notching, a wall gapped by a breach, a crack that gapped open on its own. In slang it can mean outpaced by a wide margin, and in New Zealand slang it means left suddenly. Before a noun, a gapped blade reads two ways: notched by someone, or simply having a gap.

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