Stack vs Cluster - What's the difference?

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Stack is a related term of cluster.

As nouns the difference between stack and cluster

is that stack is floor, storey while cluster is cluster (group of galaxies or stars).

stack

English

(wikipedia stack)

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) A pile.

#A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

#*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)

#*:But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack .

#A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

#(lb) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

#*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

#*:Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.

#A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)

A smokestack.

*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks .

(lb) In digital computing.

#A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.

#A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack' data structure, particularly (' the stack ) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

#*1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications , p.47:

#*:When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack .

(lb) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.

(senseid)(lb) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.

(lb) A large amount of an object.

(lb) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.

(lb) The amount of money a player has on the table.

(lb) In architecture.

#A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

#A vertical drainpipe.

A fall or crash, a prang.

(lb) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

At Caltech, a lock, obstacle, or puzzle designed to prevent underclassmen from entering a senior's room during ditch day.

Verb

(en verb)

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

* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , passage=James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.

(card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

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

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

(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

* 1975 , Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man , Outback Press, page 43,

Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I?ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.

* 1984 , , A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays , page 80,

MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.

JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.

* 2002 , Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt , page 19,

Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.

* 2007 , Martin Chipperfield, slut talk'', ''Night Falling , 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,

oh shit danny, i stacked' the car / ran into sally, an old school friend / you ' stacked the car? / so now i need this sally?s address / for the insurance, danny says

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cluster

English

Noun

(en noun)

A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.

a cluster of islands

* Spenser

Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.

*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, chapter=7, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters , from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 29, author=Keith Jackson, work=Daily Record

, title= SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , passage=Charlie Mulgrew’s delicious deadball delivery was attacked by a cluster of green and white shirts at McGregor’s back post but Ledley got up higher and with more purpose than anyone else to thump a header home from five yards.}}

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.

* Milton

As bees / Pour forth their populous youth about the hive / In clusters .

* Shakespeare

We loved him; but, like beasts / And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters , / Who did hoot him out o' the city.

(astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.

(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.

(phonetics) A group of consonants.

(computing) A group of computers that work together.

(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).

(statistics) A significant subset within a population.

(military) Set of bombs or mines.

(army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.

An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.

Derived terms

* cluster analysis * clustering * cluster bomb * globular cluster * open cluster * star cluster

Verb

(en verb)

To form a cluster or group.

The children clustered around the puppy.

* Tennyson

His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.

* Foxe

the princes of the country clustering together

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