gapping

To notch, as a sword or knife.

To make an opening in; to breach.

To check the size of a gap.

“I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.”

To leave suddenly.

A type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures, and usually elides minimally a finite verb and further any non-finite verbs that are present. Example: "Some ate bread, and others rice."

The formation of a gap.