"time gap" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1880, James Edward Henry Gordon, A Physical Treatise on Eletricity and Magnetism, Volume 2, page 138:",
          "text": "At the instant of any event, which it is desired to record, the circuit is broken by hand or otherwise, and a gap made in the line whose position between the two nearest time-gaps gives the time of the event.",
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          "ref": "1890, William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1, page 237:",
          "text": "The only breaches that can well be conceived to occur within the limits of a single mind would either be interruptions, time'''-gaps during which the consciousness went out altogether to come into existence again at a later moment;",
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          "text": "each timer means including means for measuring the actual time gap between successive vehicles passing a selected position in each of the multiple traffic lanes of a \"go\" street, means for establishing an allowable time gap for such vehicular movement.",
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          "text": "there was a short time gap between the formation of the Ore Sequence host rocks and the actual deposition of the sulphides.",
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