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/ˈstækɪŋ/ · syl·la·ble
verb
- To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. Please stack those chairs in the corner.
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner. 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. I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
noun
- The act by which something is stacked. the number of possible stackings of eight boxes
- Sport stacking. She's been practicing sport stacking for months.
- A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions. The scientist studied the stacking of molecules in the crystal structure.
Did you know? The term 'stacking' is also used in the context of molecular biology to describe the arrangement of molecules in a crystal lattice, which can have significant implications for the material's properties and behavior.