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(heading) A pile.

A smokestack.

(heading) In computing.

A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.

To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

Example: Please stack those chairs in the corner.

To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

Example: This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!

To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

Example: I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!

To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).

Example: The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.