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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wind gapnoun

    a pass in a mountain ridge with no stream flowing through it

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  1. wind gapnoun

    A dry valley once occupied by a stream or river, since captured by another stream.

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  1. wind gap

    Wind Gap (Pennsylvania Dutch: Gratdaal) is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The population of Wind Gap was 2,820 at the 2020 census. Wind Gap is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.

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  1. wind gap

    A wind gap is a geological feature in the form of a notch on a mountain ridge, typically formed by water erosion from a stream that has changed its course. It refers to a gap through which the wind passes, hence the name. These gaps often serve as routes for roads and railways. In places where wind gaps are water divides, they can also be used as migration paths and trade routes for animals and humans.

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  1. Wind gap

    A wind gap is a valley through which a waterway once flowed but is now dry as a result of stream capture. A water gap is a similar feature, but one in which a waterway still flows. Water gaps and wind gaps often provide practical routes for trails, roads, and railroads through mountainous terrain. Examples of wind gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia include Swift Run Gap, Rockfish Gap, and Buford's Gap. The last was the original crossing of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Bedford for the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, later the Norfolk and Western Railway, a precursor of today's Norfolk Southern Railway system.

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    The numerical value of wind gap in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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