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<p><b>Stack</b> may refer to:
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<h2><span id="Science">Science</span></h2>
<ul><li>Stack (mathematics), a sheaf that takes values in categories rather than sets</li>
<li>Stack (geology), a large vertical column of rock in the sea</li>
<li>Stacking (chemistry), or pi stacking, attractive, noncovalent interactions between aromatic rings</li></ul><h2><span id="Computing">Computing</span></h2>
<ul><li>Stack (abstract data type), abstract data type and data structure based on the principle of last in first out
<ul><li>Stack (C++), a C++ standard container, simulating a stack</li></ul></li>
<li>Call stack, stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program</li>
<li>Stack-based memory allocation, a memory allocation scheme based on the principle of last in first out</li>
<li>Protocol stack, a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite</li>
<li>Solution stack, a group of software systems, increasing in abstraction from bottom to top</li>
<li>Stack (Haskell), a tool to build Haskell projects and manage their dependencies</li>
<li>Stacks (Mac OS), a folder view on the Dock of macOS</li></ul><h2><span id="Transportation">Transportation</span></h2>
<ul><li>Stack interchange, a free-flowing grade separated junction between two roads
<ul><li>The Stack, the interchange of I-10 and I-17 in Phoenix, Arizona</li></ul></li>
<li>Operation Stack, parking lorries on the M20 in Kent, England when Channel crossings are disrupted</li></ul><h2><span id="People">People</span></h2>
<ul><li>Stack (surname) (including a list of people with the name)</li>
<li>Brian "Stack" Stevens (1941–2017), Cornish rugby player</li>
<li>Stacks (rapper) (born 1985), stage name of the rapper Yannique Barker</li>
<li>Stack Pierce (1933–2016), American actor and baseball player</li></ul><h2><span id="Other_uses">Other uses</span></h2>
<ul><li>Library stack, compactly spaced bookshelves in libraries</li>
<li>Amp stack, of guitar amplifiers</li>
<li>Smoke stack or chimney
<ul><li>Flue-gas stack, the industrial terminology for an industrial plant chimney</li>
<li>Funnel (ship), the smokestack or chimney on a ship</li></ul></li>
<li><i>Stack magazine</i>, a bimonthly publication about high school sports</li>
<li>Stack (unit), a US unit of volume for stacked firewood</li>
<li>Consonant stacking, a feature of some South Asian writing systems</li>
<li><i>Stacks</i> (album), a 2005 album by Bernie Marsden</li></ul><h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2>
<ul><li><span>All pages with titles beginning with <i>Stack </i></span></li>
<li><span>All pages with titles containing <i>Stack</i></span></li>
<li>Haystack (disambiguation)</li>
<li>Stacker (disambiguation)</li>
<li>Stacking (disambiguation)</li>
<li>Stak (disambiguation)</li>
<li>Stack effect, the movement of air into and out of buildings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other containers</li>
<li>Stack Island</li></ul>
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