Heap or HEAP may refer to:

Computing and mathematics

Heap (data structure) In computer science, a heap is a specialized tree-based data structure which is essentially an almost complete tree that satisfies the heap property: in a ''max heap'', for any given node C, if P is a parent node of C, then the ''key'' (the ''val ...

, a data structure commonly used to implement a priority queue *

Heap (mathematics) In abstract algebra, a semiheap is an algebraic structure consisting of a non-empty set ''H'' with a ternary operation denoted ,y,z\in H that satisfies a modified associativity property: \forall a,b,c,d,e \in H \ \ \ \ a,b,cd,e] = ,c,b.html"_ ...

, a generalization of a group * Heap (programming) (or free store), an area of memory for dynamic memory allocation *

Heapsort In computer science, heapsort is a comparison-based sorting algorithm. Heapsort can be thought of as an improved selection sort: like selection sort, heapsort divides its input into a sorted and an unsorted region, and it iteratively shrinks the ...

, a comparison-based sorting algorithm *

Heap overflow A heap overflow, heap overrun, or heap smashing is a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area. Heap overflows are exploitable in a different manner to that of stack-based overflows. Memory on the heap is dynamically allocated at ...

, a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area *

Sorites paradox The sorites paradox (; sometimes known as the paradox of the heap) is a paradox that results from vague predicates. A typical formulation involves a heap of sand, from which grains are removed individually. With the assumption that removing a sing ...

, also known as the paradox of the heap

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* Heap (surname) * Heaps (surname) *

Heap leaching Heap leaching is an industrial mining process used to extract precious metals, copper, uranium, and other compounds from ore using a series of chemical reactions that absorb specific minerals and re-separate them after their division from other e ...

, an industrial mining process *

Heap (comics) The Heap is the name of several fictional comic book muck-monsters, the original of which first appeared in Hillman Periodicals' ''Air Fighters Comics'' #3 (cover-dated Dec. 1942), during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Co ...

, a golden-age comic book character *

Heap, Bury Heap was a district of Bury, England until it was abolished in 1894 to become parts of the parishes of Heywood, Bury, Bircle and Unsworth Unsworth is a village and residential area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, ...

, a former district in England * "The Heap" (''Fargo''), a 2014 television episode *

High Explosive, Armor-Piercing Armour-piercing ammunition (AP) is a type of projectile designed to penetrate either body armour or vehicle armour. From the 1860s to 1950s, a major application of armour-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armour carried on many wars ...

, ammunition and ordnance *

Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod ''Cryptonomicon'' is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. One group of characters are World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and ...

, an idea in Neal Stephenson's novel ''Cryptonomicon''

Computing and mathematics

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