stack

Definitions

General Science

  • noun an

    area

    of temporary storage for data, registers or tasks where items are added and retrieved from the same end of the list
  • noun a very tall industrial

    chimney

    , usually containing several flues
  • noun a

    steep

    -sided pillar of rock which stands in the sea near a

    cliff

  • noun a large neat pile of things
  • verb to place things in a neat pile one on top of the other

Agriculture

  • noun a pile of sheaves of grain, hay or

    straw

    . Stacks can be round or square.

Aviation

  • noun a number of

    aircraft

    waiting to land at an

    airport

    that are circling at different heights
  • verb to put one on top of the other

Construction

  • A vertical structure containing one or more flues for the discharge of hot gas.
  • A vertical supply duct in a warm, air-

    heating system

    .
  • Any vertical

    plumbing

    pipe, such as

    soil pipe

    ,

    waste pipe

    , vent, or leader pipe.
  • A collection of vertical

    plumbing

    pipes.
  • To place trusses on framed walls where they will be installed.

Electronics

  • An orderly pile in which elements are arranged in layers, related groups, or the like. For example, a

    fuel cell stack

    , a

    rectifier stack

    , a

    head stack

    , or a

    protocol stack

    . The elements of such a stack may or may not be identical. Also, to arrange in such a stack.
  • A set of registers, memory locations, or other storage areas or units which are ordered in a manner that provides for the handling of

    data

    , interrupts, or the like, in a specified order, such as

    FIFO

    or

    LIFO

    . To push is to add an item to the top of a stack, and to pop is to remove the first item from the top of a stack.

Information & Library Science

  • noun a large and ordered

    collection

    of books kept in another

    area

    for reference

Slang

  • adjective excellent, fantastic. A teenage vogue word of the late 1980s, used as an exclamation of approval or delight. The term spread from the language of hip hop in New

    york

    to London aficionados.
  • adjective inferior, negative, ‘no way’, etc. The word, like many similar vogue terms, is also used to mean its virtual opposite
  • verb to crash (a vehicle), destroy. The word is used in this sense throughout the English-speaking world. For skateboarders and schoolchildren since the late 1990s it refers to falling over or

    tripping

    up.

Travel

  • verb to circle round waiting in turn for permission to land at a busy

    airport

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