stack

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Stack (Lower German stapel 'stored goods'; compare Staffel ) denotes:

  • in shipbuilding a support device for ships, see launching
  • in the textile industry the length of the fiber of a material still to be spun, see staple (textile fiber)
  • Batch , in computer science a sequence of tasks to be processed automatically, see batch processing
  • a special data structure in computer science, see stack memory
  • In the card game, the not dealt playing cards that are face down in the middle, see pile (card game)
  • a (mostly for static reasons) standing wooden bell tower in northern Germany apart from a church, see bell stack


Stack is the name of the following places:


Stapel is the family name of the following people:


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Wiktionary: stacks  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations