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credibility gap (s) (noun), credibility gaps (pl)
1. A situation in which the public distrusts the accuracy of official statements: There is a credibility gap between what the mayor is claiming and what the citizens of the city see is going on.
2. An apparent difference between what is claimed to be true and what is in fact real: Despite what the leaders of the country say about the economic conditions being much better, there are obvious credibility gaps when so many people are losing their jobs and wages are being diminished for some of those who are still working.

Although the following cartoon has a meaning for credibility, it is actually an illustration of a credibility gap, and so the information in this entry is providing the right definitions for this image!

Something that is not quite believable.
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This entry is located in the following units: cred-, credit-, creed- (page 2) -ibility (page 2)
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gap (s) (noun), gaps
1. An opening in a solid structure or surface: Henry's dog wriggled through a gap in the fence at the backyard when it came back from snooping around.

There was a large gap in the wall where the artillery shell exploded.

2. A pass or access through large steep hills: When Tim and his friends were exploring a geographic region, they were able to walk through a gap in the mountains so they could see what was on the other side.
3. A space between objects or points; an aperture: Shirley had an abnormal gap between her two front teeth.
4. A conspicuous difference or imbalance; a disparity: There was a big gap between Sue's income and her spending during the last month.
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A difference between what is claimed to be true and what is actually true. (1)
Kirkwood gap, Kirkwood gaps
One of a series of vacancies in the distribution of the orbits of the minor planets, marked by the absence of minor planets whose orbits have periods that are simple fractions of the orbital period of Jupiter.

The reason for this activity is that in such positions any minor planet would be repeatedly perturbed by Jupiter's gravitational field until it was forced out of the "forbidden" orbit.

The gaps are an example of gravitational resonance.

This entry is located in the following unit: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 14)