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Word: heap (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
  • A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
  • A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones.
  • computing A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

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Verb:

  • transitive To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • transitive To pile in a heap.
  • transitive To supply in great quantity.

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