In network parlance, a stack is a set of layered programs, each of which talks to the ones above and below it Below is an illustration of the most common kind of network stack, showing how an application program talks through the stack to the low-level network
A dynamic, sequential data list usually contained in the computer system's main memory It has special provisions to access data from either end Storage and retrieval of data from the stack is performed automatically by the CPU
If you say that someone has stacks of something, you mean that they have a lot of it. If the job's that good, you'll have stacks of money
an area of memory used to implement a data structure that follows the last in, first out method of access In most cases, the stack is used by the processor to keep track of subroutine calls and returns
an orderly pile arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"