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The definition of stack
15 Definitions of: stack
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- noun, an ordered pile or heap
- noun, a large orderly pile of hay, straw, etc, for storage in the open air
- noun, library science compactly spaced bookshelves, used to house collections of books in an area usually prohibited to library users
- noun, a number of aircraft circling an airport at different altitudes, awaiting their signal to land
- noun, a large amount
- noun, military a pile of rifles or muskets in the shape of a cone
- noun, a measure of coal or wood equal to 108 cubic feet
- noun, See chimney stack, smokestack
- noun, a vertical pipe, such as the funnel of a ship or the soil pipe attached to the side of a building
- noun, a high column of rock, esp one isolated from the mainland by the erosive action of the sea
- noun, an area in a computer memory for temporary storage
- verb, to place in a stack; pile
- verb, to load or fill up with piles of something
- verb, to control (a number of aircraft waiting to land at an airport) so that each flies at a different altitude
- verb, stack the cards to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
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©HarperCollins 2008. Collins English Dictionary definition of stack