# Stack

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**Stack** may refer to:

## Places

- [Stack Island](/source/Stack_Island), an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia, in Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group
- [Blue Stack Mountains](/source/Blue_Stack_Mountains), in Co. Donegal, Ireland

## People

- [Stack (surname)](/source/Stack_(surname)) (including a list of people with the name)
- Parnell "Stacks" Edwards, a key associate in the [Lufthansa heist](/source/Lufthansa_heist)
- [Robert Stack Pierce](/source/Stack_Pierce) (1933–2016), an American actor and baseball player
- [Robert Stack](/source/Robert_Stack) (1919 – 2003), and American actor and television show host
- [Brian "Stack" Stevens](/source/Stack_Stevens) (1941–2017), a Cornish rugby player

## Arts, entertainment, and media

- *[Stack magazine](/source/Stack_magazine)*, a bimonthly publication about high school sports
- [*Stacks* (album)](/source/Stacks_(album)), a 2005 album by Bernie Marsden
- Stacks, trailer parks that were made vertical, in the film *[Ready Player One](/source/Ready_Player_One_(film))*

## Computing

- [Stack (abstract data type)](/source/Stack_(abstract_data_type)), abstract data type and data structure based on the principle of last in first out
- [Stack (Haskell)](/source/Stack_(Haskell)), a tool to build Haskell projects and manage their dependencies
- Stack in Macintosh, one of a collection of documents created with [HyperCard](/source/HyperCard) (as in a stack of virtual cards)
- Stack in [LiveCode](/source/LiveCode), one of a collection of program scripts created with LiveCode's *Transcript* programming language
- [Call stack](/source/Call_stack), stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program
- [Stack machine](/source/Stack_machine), an architecture centered around a pushdown stack
- [Protocol stack](/source/Protocol_stack), a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite
- [Solution stack](/source/Solution_stack), a group of software systems, increasing in abstraction from bottom to top
- [Stack-based memory allocation](/source/Stack-based_memory_allocation), a memory allocation scheme based on the principle of "last in, first out"
- [Stacks (Mac OS)](/source/Stacks_(Mac_OS)), a folder view on the Dock of macOS
- [Stacks blockchain](/source/Stacks_blockchain), a Bitcoin smart contract platform

## Science and technology

- [Stack (geology)](/source/Stack_(geology)), a large vertical column of rock in the sea
- [Stack (mathematics)](/source/Stack_(mathematics)), a sheaf that takes values in categories rather than sets
- [Algebraic stack](/source/Algebraic_stack), a special kind of stack commonly used in algebraic geometry - [Stacks Project](/source/Stacks_Project), an open source collaborative mathematics textbook writing project
- [Stacking (chemistry)](/source/Stacking_(chemistry)), or pi stacking, attractive, noncovalent interactions between aromatic rings
- [Yellow stackhousia](/source/Yellow_stackhousia), a plant
- [The stack (philosophy)](/source/The_stack_(philosophy)), a political and design theory of planetary-scale computation coined by Benjamin H. Bratton
- Stack, an assembled [multistage rocket](/source/Stack_(rocketry))
- Stack (microelectronics), a two-layer gate insulator in MOSFET, usually [high-κ](/source/High-%CE%BA)-oxide over SiO2

## Transportation

- [Operation Stack](/source/Operation_Stack), parking lorries on the M20 in Kent, England, when Channel crossings are disrupted
- [Stack interchange](/source/Stack_interchange), a free-flowing grade-separated junction between two roads
- [The Stack](/source/The_Stack), the interchange of I-10 and I-17 in Phoenix, Arizona

## Other uses

- [Stack Ltd](/source/Stack_Ltd), the company that owns 0verflow
- [Stack (unit)](/source/Stack_(unit)), a US unit of volume for stacked firewood
- [Amp stack](/source/Amp_stack), of guitar amplifiers
- [Library stack](/source/Library_stack), compactly spaced bookshelves in libraries
- [Smoke stack](/source/Smoke_stack) or chimney - [Flue-gas stack](/source/Flue-gas_stack), the industrial terminology for an industrial plant chimney - [Funnel (ship)](/source/Funnel_(ship)), the smokestack or chimney on a ship
- [Stack effect](/source/Stack_effect), the movement of air into and out of buildings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other containers

## See also

- [Haystack (disambiguation)](/source/Haystack_(disambiguation))
- [Stacker (disambiguation)](/source/Stacker_(disambiguation))
- [Stacking (disambiguation)](/source/Stacking_(disambiguation))
- [Stak (disambiguation)](/source/Stak_(disambiguation))
- [Pile (disambiguation)](/source/Pile_(disambiguation))

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