a stack

Definition of a stack in English English dictionary
stack: A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea
stack: A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape
stack: Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books
stack: A large amount of an object
stack: A fall or crash, a prang
stack: To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack
Please stack those chairs in the corner.
stack: A vertical drain pipe
stack: To take all the money another player currently has on the table
I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!.
stack: A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
stack: To fall or crash
Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
stack: A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions
stack: To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.)
The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
stack: an orderly pile arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards" arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes
stack: {v} pile up, pile up in ricks, stumble
stack: {n} a large pile, rick, quantity, number
stack: A smokestack
stack: A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last
stack: A section of RAM which is used to store temporary data A stack is a last-in-first-out (LIFO) structure
stack: load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"
stack: To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner
stack: 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
stack: 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
stack: 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
stack: 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
stack: an orderly pile arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"
stack: an orderly pile
stack: A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue
stack: An offensive alignment in which two players set up in a low post position one side of the lane and a third player is in the low post on the other side Most commonly used for throw-ins from behind the baseline
stack: A data structure in which new elements are added to and removed from the top of the structure A stack is characterized by last-in, first-out (LIFO) behavior
stack: A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet
stack: To place the rope in an orderly pile such that the end tied to the leader is on top This helps to keep the rope free of knots and kinks so that it will feed smoothly
stack: The shelves on which the library's materials are stored The plural, stacks, is often used See also Range, Shelving
stack: A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch
stack: A block of memory used by programs for temporary storage of variables It is a LIFO (Last In First Out) buffer and is not randomly addressed Variables are "Pushed" onto the stack and "Poped" back from the stack
stack: To place one or more objects or material in the form of a stack or on an existing stack
stack: NB Obsolete Use [/vbox /left [A1 , An]] instead [/stack [A1 An]], the elements A1 thru An are stacked one above another and left aligned
stack: {i} heap; tall bookshelf; chimney; (Computers) area in memory where information can be stored and then retrieved in the reverse order; (Internet) layers of the open system interconnection used to transfer information
stack: A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity
stack: The amount of money a player has on the table
stack: a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
stack: a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
stack: A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
stack: —An area of program memory used to store local program variables, method parameters, and return values In NET languages, value types are allocated on the stack See Heap
stack: region of memory in which programs store status data, such as function call return addresses, passed parameters, and sometimes local variables The program, microprocessor and operating system can all maintain one or more separate stacks
stack: A stack of things is a pile of them. There were stacks of books on the bedside table and floor
stack: If someone in authority stacks an organization or body, they fill it with their own supporters so that the decisions it makes will be the ones they want it to make. They said they were going to stack the court with anti-abortion judges = pack see also stacked, chimney stack
stack: offensive strategy in which all the players line up down the middle of the field and alternately make cuts to the side
stack: load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes
stack: (1) A data structure that provides a dynamic, sequential data list that can be accessed from either end; a last-in, first-out (push down, pop up) stack is accessed from just one end (2) A dynamic area of memory used to hold information temporarily; a push/pop method of adding and retrieving information is used (3) A portion of computer memory and/or registers used to hold information temporarily The stack consists of stack frames that hold return locations for called routines, routine arguments, local variables, and saved registers
stack: A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof
stack: If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles. Mme Cathiard was stacking the clean bottles in crates They are stacked neatly in piles of three. Stack up means the same as stack. He ordered them to stack up pillows behind his back. plates of delicious food stacked up on the counters
stack: A common data structure in computing Data items are "popped" and "pushed" (stored and retrieved) from the top of the stack Stacks normally have a maximum size It is an error to push items onto a full stack, or pop items off an empty stack In TrueType *hinting, all *instructions pop their arguments from the stack, although this aspect of the language is hidden in many TrueType hinting editors - and in *TypeMan Talk For efficiency, hint assemblers and compilers typically push all the arguments for a glyph's instructions onto the stack at the beginning The stack's maximum size is stored in the *'maxp' table of a TrueType font
stack: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
stack: The place in the corner of the room where you pile unopened software manuals
stack: The funnel or "chimney" from which the ship's gasses of combustion are freed to the atmosphere
stack: The shelves or bookcases on which the library's materials are stored The plural, stacks, is often used ("In the stacks on floor 3 ") See Also Rack, Range, Shelving
stack: arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"
stack: the most basic combination of transducer and amplifying elements together forming a resonant body to be attached to (or including) a radiating surface or horn In some magnetostrictive transducers, the stack is a set of nickel laminations (shims) brazed at the ends and somemes at the midpoint and fastened to the front driver or horn
stack: {f} place one thing on top of another in a heap, pile
stack: A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch
stack: A contiguous array of bytes in the address space that grows from low addresses to high addresses It consists of contiguous frames, one frame for each active procedure i960 architecture defines three stacks: local, supervisor and interrupt
stack: A portion of memory in a computer occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions
stack: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
stack: To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood
stack: A container holding a sequence of elements and allowing you to insert elements at one end of the sequence and delete elements from the same end of the sequence
stack: the term for a seismic dataset that has been processed through the common midpoint or common reflection point stacking procedure The seismic acquisition program is usually designed to create redundant observations of the same subsurface targets Typically these redundant observations have different travel paths to the reflector, so are somewhat independent as far as noise content After correcting each individual observation or trace for differences in the length of the travel path, these independent observations may be added together to create a new trace that usually has a lower noise content than any of the individual traces AVO analysis of the seismic data must be done on un-stacked (pre-stack) data
stack: When a blind is in its closed position, the area taken up by the fabric/slats etc is the stack The smaller the stack, the more preferable, as the blind appears neater and obscures less of the view
stack: Coastal landform. A large vertical column of rock in the sea
stack: Reserved area of memory where the processor saves the return address when a call instruction is received When a return instruction is encountered, the processor restores the current address on the stack to the program counter Data such as the contents of the registers can also be saved on the stack The push instruction places data on the stack and the pop instruction removes it An item is pushed onto the stack by decrementing the stack pointer (SP) by 2 and writing the item at the SP address In other words, the stack grows downward in memory
stack: If you say that the odds are stacked against someone, or that particular factors are stacked against them, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed in what they want to do because the conditions are not favourable. The odds are stacked against civilians getting a fair trial Everything seems to be stacked against us
stack: a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
stack: Hence: Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel