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pushdown

The English word “pushdown” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Describing a stack in which items are removed in a LIFO manner from the end at which they were added.
  2. Used by being pushed down.

noun

  1. A pushdown automaton.
  2. The relegation of the transformation or processing of data to the originating datasource.
  3. An exercise that requires one to push weight downward.

Etymology

From push + down; by analogy with a spring-loaded stack of plates in a cafeteria.

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