heap

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Somehow it ended up in a heap of scrap copper.

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Quick take

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of heap gathered in one view.

noun

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

noun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

noun

a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for heap.

noun

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

See also: pile, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus

noun

a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"

verb

bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him"

verb

arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"

verb

fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes"

Example sentences

Somehow it ended up in a heap of scrap copper.

We're not just going to heap on the downvotes because we're trying to follow the pack.

I don't know a heap about traditional computer science.

All bindings are stored on the heap and the stack/registers are underutilized.

There's a little bit more going on with the expensive ones than just being a heap of plastic that you can duplicate at home, I think.

A heap allocated string requires 8 bytes for the length, 8 bytes for the pointer to the string, and 8 bytes for the capacity / reference count.

So without some heavy analysis, you end up keeping your local variables in an activation frame object on the heap, and at that point you're toast.

" I neither ridiculed nor made fun of Grid, as you claim I did; however, you seem to take pleasure in ridiculing and making fun of me. I'm sorry that I didn't heap the app with praise -- from the video I saw, it does look like an impressive beginning.

Summary: Firefox has a bunch of long-living system javascript objects; these get fragmented in the javascript engine's heap and end up keeping alive a bunch of mostly-empty chunks of memory.

This is because it needs to be able to check whether the application can run on that system and give an intelligent "um, you can't install Program X because your computer is 16-bit and doesn't support it" message rather than falling over in a big heap.