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The correct spelling is heaps.
How to pronounce heaps
/hiːps/
nounIPA: /hiːps/
Say it like: Hee-ps
The correct spelling is heaps. 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.A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- 2.A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- 3.A great number or large quantity of things.
- 4.A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- 5.Memory that is dynamically allocated.
verb
- 1.To pile in a heap.
- 2.To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- 3.To supply in great quantity.
adverb
- 1.Very much, a lot
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