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What does stack mean?

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Noun
  1. (heading) A pile.
    1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
    2. A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
    3. (Britain) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
    4. A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
    5. An extensive collection
  2. A smokestack.
  3. (heading) In digital computing.
    1. A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
    2. A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
    3. A standard set of software components commonly used together on a system – for example, the combination of an operating system, web server, database and programming language.
  4. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
  5. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
  6. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
  7. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
  8. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
  9. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
  10. (heading) In architecture.
    1. A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
    2. A vertical drainpipe.
  11. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
  12. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  2. (card game) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  3. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  4. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  5. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
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