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stack

Pronunciation: /stæk/

The English word “stack” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
  2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
  3. A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
  4. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
  5. An extensive collection
  6. A smokestack.
  7. A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
  8. A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
  9. An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
  10. A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
  11. A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
  12. A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
  13. Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
  14. A large amount of an object.
  15. A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
  16. The amount of money a player has on the table.
  17. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
  18. A vertical drainpipe.
  19. A fall or crash, a prang.
  20. A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

Etymology

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”). The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

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