HEAP meaning: Data structure for priority queue

We found 51 dictionaries that define the word heap:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

heap: Merriam-Webster.com
heap, heap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
heap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
heap: Collins English Dictionary
heap: Vocabulary.com
Heap, heap: Wordnik
heap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
heap: Wiktionary
heap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
heap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
heap: Infoplease Dictionary
Heap, heap: Dictionary.com
heap: Online Etymology Dictionary
heap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
HEAP, Heap (comics), Heap (data structure), Heap (mathematics), Heap (memory management), Heap (programming), Heap, The Heap (Fargo), The Heap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Heap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
heap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
heap: Rhymezone
heap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
heap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
HEAP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
Heap: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
heap: Free Dictionary
heap: Mnemonic Dictionary
Heap, heap: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
heap: Dictionary/thesaurus
heap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

heap: Legal dictionary

Computing (9 matching dictionaries)

heap: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
heap: CCI Computer
Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
heap: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
heap: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
Webopedia (No longer online)
Technopedia (No longer online)
Heap (programming), heap: Encyclopedia
Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

HEAP: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
heap: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Heap: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Heap: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
heap, heap: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

heap, heap, heap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
heap: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
heap: Urban Dictionary
Heap: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

HEAP: Energy Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
▸ noun:  A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
▸ noun:  A great number or large quantity of things.
▸ noun:  (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
▸ noun:  (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pile in a heap.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To supply in great quantity.
▸ adverb:  (possibly offensive) very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

spate, great deal, muckle, mess, mass, slew, plenty, mickle, peck, pile, more...

Opposite:

scarcity, dearth, lack, paucity, shortage

Types:

binary heap, fibonacci heap, binomial heap, brodal heap, pairing heap, vEmde Boas tree, more...

Phrases:

heap on, compost heap, scrap heap, rubbish heap, heap up, more...

Adjectives:

scrap, little, great, rubbish, whole, ant, small, large, dung, confused, crumpled

Colors:

rust, brown, gray, charcoal, black, taupe, beige, olive, khaki, mustard

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