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Stack

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Stack may refer to:

Places

  • Stack Island, an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia, in Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group

People

  • Stack (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
  • Robert Stack Pierce (1933–2016), an American actor and baseball player
  • Brian "Stack" Stevens (1941–2017), a Cornish rugby player
  • Stacks (rapper) (born 1985), the stage name of the rapper Yannique Barker

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Stack magazine, a bimonthly publication about high school sports
  • Stacks (album), a 2005 album by Bernie Marsden
  • Stacks, trailer parks that were made vertical, in the film Ready Player One

Computing

  • Stack (abstract data type), abstract data type and data structure based on the principle of last in first out
    • Stack (C++), a C++ standard container, simulating a stack
  • Stack (Haskell), a tool to build Haskell projects and manage their dependencies
  • Stack in Macintosh, one of a collection of documents created with HyperCard (as in a stack of virtual cards)
  • Stack in LiveCode, one of a collection of program scripts created with LiveCode's Transcript programming language
  • Call stack, stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program
  • Protocol stack, a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite
  • Solution stack, a group of software systems, increasing in abstraction from bottom to top
  • Stack-based memory allocation, a memory allocation scheme based on the principle of last in first out
  • Stacks (Mac OS), a folder view on the Dock of macOS

Science

  • Stack (geology), a large vertical column of rock in the sea
  • Stack (mathematics), a sheaf that takes values in categories rather than sets
  • Algebraic stack, a special kind of stack commonly used in algebraic geometry
    • Stacks Project, an open source collaborative mathematics textbook writing project
  • Stacking (chemistry), or pi stacking, attractive, noncovalent interactions between aromatic rings

Transportation

  • Operation Stack, parking lorries on the M20 in Kent, England when Channel crossings are disrupted
  • Stack interchange, a free-flowing grade separated junction between two roads
    • The Stack, the interchange of I-10 and I-17 in Phoenix, Arizona

Other uses

  • Stack (unit), a US unit of volume for stacked firewood
  • Amp stack, of guitar amplifiers
  • Library stack, compactly spaced bookshelves in libraries
  • Smoke stack or chimney
    • Flue-gas stack, the industrial terminology for an industrial plant chimney
    • Funnel (ship), the smokestack or chimney on a ship
  • Stack effect, the movement of air into and out of buildings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other containers

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Stack
  • All pages with titles containing Stack
  • Haystack (disambiguation)
  • Stacker (disambiguation)
  • Stacking (disambiguation)
  • Stak (disambiguation)
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