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heap

The correct spelling is heap.

How to pronounce heap

/heːp/
noun

IPA: /heːp/

Say it like: Hee-p

The correct spelling is heap. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. For example: "a heap of earth or stones"

Usage Examples

a heap of earth or stones

You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

My first car was an old heap.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. 2.A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. 3.A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. 4.A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. 5.Memory that is dynamically allocated.

verb

  1. 1.To pile in a heap.
  2. 2.To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. 3.To supply in great quantity.

adverb

  1. 1.(representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.

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