Heap or HEAP may refer to:
Computing and mathematics
edit- Heap (data structure), a data structure commonly used to implement a priority queue
- Heap (mathematics), a generalization of a group
- Heap (programming) (or free store), an area of memory for dynamic memory allocation
- Heapsort, a comparison-based sorting algorithm
- Heap overflow, a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area
- Sorites paradox, also known as the paradox of the heap
Other uses
edit- Heap (surname)
- Heaps (surname)
- Heap leaching, an industrial mining process
- Heap (comics), a golden-age comic book character
- Heap, Bury, a former district in England
- "The Heap" (Fargo), a 2014 television episode
- High Explosive, Armor-Piercing, ammunition and ordnance
- Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod, an idea in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon
See also
edit- Skandha, a concept in Buddhist phenomenology
- Beap or bi-parental heap, a data structure
- Treap, a form of binary search tree data structure
- Heapey, a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, England
- Pile (disambiguation)