Rack or racks may refer to:
Storage and installation
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Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
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Bicycle rack The ambiguous term bicycle rack or bike rack may refer to:
*Bicycle carrier, a device attached to a vehicle (e.g., to a car or bus) to which bicycles can be mounted for transport
*Bicycle parking rack, a stationary fixture to which a bicycle can be ...
, a frame for storing bicycles when not in use
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Bustle rack, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles
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Drying rack
The term 'clothes horse' is used to refer to a portable frame upon which wet laundry is hung to dry by evaporation. The frame is usually made of wood, metal or plastic. It is a cheap low-tech piece of laundry equipment, as opposed to a clothes d ...
, for hanging clothing to dry
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Firearm rack, for storing firearms
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Pallet racking, structural racks (usually steel) for storing palletised loads
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Rack (billiards), for placing billiard balls in their starting positions
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Roof rack, a system used to carry items on top of a car
* Standardized equipment racks
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19-inch rack
A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is wide. The 19 inch dimension includes the edges or "ears" that protrude from each side of the equ ...
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23-inch rack
A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is wide. The 19 inch dimension includes the edges or "ears" that protrude from each side of the equ ...
, commonly used for computer, communications, and AV equipment
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Rack unit
A rack unit (abbreviated U or RU) is a unit of measure defined as . It is most frequently used as a measurement of the overall height of 19-inch and 23-inch rack frames, as well as the height of equipment that mounts in these frames, whereby th ...
, equipment sizing measure
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International Standard Payload Rack, used in spaceflight
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Toast rack, a serving piece
Media
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''The Rack'' (album), debut album by Asphyx
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''The Rack'' (1915 film), an American silent drama film
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''The Rack'' (1956 film), a courtroom drama starring Paul Newman
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"Racks" (song), song by rapper Y. C.
People
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Rack (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), fictitious character
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Edmund Rack (c.1735–1787), English writer
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Reinhard Rack (born 1945), Austrian politician
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Tom Rack
Tom Rack is a Canadian actor and writer best known for his portrayal of henchman Zigesfeld in the 1991 film '' If Looks Could Kill'', and for twice portraying physicist Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.
Career
A character actor with an impactful presence, ...
, American actor
Transportation
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Rack and pinion
A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a circular gear (the '' pinion'') engaging a linear gear (the ''rack''). Together, they convert rotational motion into linear motion. Rotating the pinion causes the rack to be driven ...
, a gear arrangement commonly used in vehicle steering
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Rack lift
A rack lift is a type of elevator which consists of a cage attached to vertical rails affixed to the walls of a tower or shaft and which is propelled up and down by means of an electric motor which drives a pinion gear that engages a rack gear
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, an elevator which runs on vertical rails
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Rack railway, a train propelled using a toothed rail
* Rack, in horseriding, a quick, four-beat
ambling gait
An ambling gait or amble is any of several four-beat intermediate horse gaits, all of which are faster than a walk but usually slower than a canter and always slower than a gallop. Horses that amble are sometimes referred to as "gaited", particu ...
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Racks railway station, a former railway station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Other uses
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Laboratory drying rack, a pegboard for hanging and draining glassware in a laboratory
* Rack, a
climbing term for the set of equipment carried up a climb
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Rack (web server interface)
Rack is a modular interface between web servers and web applications developed in the Ruby programming language. With Rack, application programming interfaces (APIs) for web frameworks and middleware are wrapped into a single method call handli ...
, a Web server interface for Ruby
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Racking, the transfer of a liquid (such as wine) from one container to another
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Racking focus, a photography technique
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Rack of lamb, a cut of lamb meat
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Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra
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Rack (torture)
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Receptor for activated C kinase 1 (RACK1)
See also
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RACK (disambiguation) RACK may refer to:
* RACK, the former NASDAQ ticker symbol for Silicon Graphics International, formerly called Rackable Systems
* Risk-aware consensual kink
* RACK1
Receptor for activated C kinase 1 (RACK1), also known as guanine nucleotide-bindi ...
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Wrack (disambiguation)
Wrack may refer to:
* wrack (mathematics), a concept in knot theory
* wrack (seaweed), several species of seaweed
* '' Wrack'', a novel by James Bradley (Australian writer)
* Charlie Wrack (1899–1979), English footballer
* Darren Wrack (born 197 ...
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