Stack

Stack may refer to:

• A pile or mound of something

Mathematics

• Stack (descent theory), general category-theoretical concept to formalise "pull-back" operations in geometry and algebra
• Algebraic stack, a generalisation of scheme and algebraic space in algebraic geometry; a specific type of the above

Computers

• Stack (data structure), abstract data type and data structure based on the principle of Last In First Out (LIFO)
• Stacks (software), a folder view on the Dock of Mac OS X
• Stack-based memory allocation
• Call stack
• Protocol stack, a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite
• Solution stack, a grouping of software systems intended to deliver a solution, increasing in abstraction from bottom to top.

People

• Brian 'Stack' Stevens, a Cornish rugby player
• Joseph Stack, an American who flew an aircraft into an Austin, Texas building to attack the IRS
• Stacks (rapper), the stage name of the rapper Yannique Barker born 1985
• Robert Stack (1919 – 2003) American actor

Technology

• Flue gas stacks, the industrial terminology for an industrial plant chimney
• Guitar amplifier stack, as used in guitar terminology
• Smoke stack, a chimney
• 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

• Stack (geology), a large vertical column of rock in the sea
• Stack magazine, a bimonthly publication about high school sports

See also

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