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an orderly pile batch: (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" load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes" push-down list: a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) smokestack: a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"
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A stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast. Stacks are formed when part of a headland is eroded, leaving a small island. They also form when a natural arch collapses due to sub-aerial processes and gravity. A stack may collapse or be eroded leaving a stump. Stacks form most commonly on chalk cliffs, because of the medium resistance to erosion. ...
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A reserved area of memory used to keep track of a program's internal operations, including functions, return addresses, passed parameters,etc. A stack is usually maintained as a "last in, first out" (LIFO) data structure, so that the last item added to the structure is the first item used.
Ãâó: www.angelfire.com/ny3/diGi8tech/SGlossary.html
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Any structure or part thereof which contains a flue or flues for the discharge of gases.
Ãâó: www.angelfire.com/biz/BuildingPathology/durs.html
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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.
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