heap
IPA: hˈip
noun
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To pile in a heap.
- (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- (transitive) To supply in great quantity.
adverb
- (possibly offensive) very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans
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Examples of "heap" in Sentences
- She is still at the top of the heap.
- It's hard to judge the size of the heap.
- The site was covered by heaps of cow dung.
- Heaps has refused to accept the reimbursement.
- He's definitely at the top of the teacher heap.
- It inherits the from ternary tree and the heap.
- First, the tinder is piled up in a compact heap.
- In 1990, the car was practically the top of the heap.
- The supercomputer is the top of the heap in power and expense.
- In consequence, vagueness gives rise to the paradox of the heap.
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