Heap Explained

Heap or HEAP may refer to:

Computing and mathematics

• 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

• 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

• 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)