Heap

Heap may refer to:

Computer science

• Heap (data structure), a data structure commonly used to implement a priority queue
• Heap (programming) (or free store), an area of memory used for dynamic memory allocation
  • Heap overflow, a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area
• Heapsort, a comparison-based sorting algorithm

Mathematics

• Heap (mathematics), a generalization of a group

Industry

• Heap leaching, an industrial mining process

Comics

• The Heap, a golden-age comic book character similar to but well pre-dating Marvel Comics' Man-Thing and later re-imagined by Todd McFarlane for his series Spawn

Names

• Heap (surname)
• Heaps (surname)

Acronyms

• High Explosive, Armor-Piercing ammunition and ordnance
• Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod, an idea put forth in Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon

See also

• Beap
• Heap Big Chief
• Heapey
• Pile (disambiguation)
• Sorites paradox, also known as the "paradox of the heap"
• Treap