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Stack may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Stack Island, an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia, in Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group
- Blue Stack Mountains, in Co. Donegal, Ireland
People
[edit]- Stack (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
- Parnell "Stacks" Edwards, a key associate in the Lufthansa heist
- Robert Stack Pierce (1933–2016), an American actor and baseball player
- Robert Stack (1919 – 2003), and American actor and television show host
- Brian "Stack" Stevens (1941–2017), a Cornish rugby player
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Stack (abstract data type), abstract data type and data structure based on the principle of last in first out
- 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
- Stack machine, an architecture centered around a pushdown stack
- 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
- Stacks blockchain, a Bitcoin smart contract platform
Science and technology
[edit]- 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
- Yellow stackhousia, a plant
- The stack (philosophy), a political and design theory of planetary-scale computation coined by Benjamin H. Bratton
- Stack, an assembled multistage rocket
- Stack (microelectronics), a two-layer gate insulator in MOSFET, usually high-κ-oxide over SiO2
Transportation
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Stack Ltd, the company that owns 0verflow
- 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