Rack or racks may refer to:
Storage and installation
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Amp rack
Amp rack is short for amplifier rack, and is a term used mostly in reference to professional audio applications to describe any furniture, fixture, or case where amplifiers are mounted by their faceplates or in slot grooves, which is termed a ''ra ...
, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
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Bicycle rack, a frame for storing bicycles when not in use
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Bustle rack
A bustle rack is a type of storage bin mounted on combat vehicles, usually on the sides and/or rear of the turret. These racks are used to carry extra gear and supplies for the vehicle in the field, as well as give the crew a place to store their ...
, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles
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Drying rack, for hanging clothing to dry
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Firearm rack
A gun rack, also known as a firearm rack, rifle rack, or arm rack, is a rack used for storing firearms such as long guns and handguns. They can be used for regular storage or display.
Gun racks are often designed to hold a gun pointing up, with i ...
, for storing firearms
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Pallet racking
Pallet rack is a material handling storage aid system designed to store materials on pallets (or “skids”). Although there are many varieties of pallet racking, all types allow for the storage of palletized materials in horizontal rows with mul ...
, structural racks (usually steel) for storing palletised loads
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Rack (billiards)
A rack (sometimes called a triangle) is a piece of equipment that is used to place billiard balls in their starting positions at the beginning of a pocket billiards game. ''Rack'' may also be used as a verb to describe the act of setting billiard ...
, for placing billiard balls in their starting positions
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Roof rack
A roof rack is a set of bars secured to the roof of a motor car. It is used to carry bulky items such as luggage, bicycles, canoes, kayaks, skis, or various carriers and containers.
They allow users of an automobile to transport objects on ...
, a system used to carry items on top of a car
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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, equipment sizing measure
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International Standard Payload Rack
The International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) is a steel framework container that is designed and been adopted by the International Space Station (ISS) program to support efficient integration and interchangeability of space payload hardware, ...
, used in spaceflight
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Toast rack
A toast rack or toastrack is a serving piece having vertical partitions (usually from five to eight in number) connected to a flat base, used for holding slices of toast. It often has a central ring handle for carrying and passing round the tabl ...
, 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)
This article lists the major and recurring fictional characters created by Joss Whedon for the television series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. For detailed descriptions, see individual character pages.
Cast Main cast
The following characters ...
, fictitious character
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Edmund Rack
Edmund Rack (c.1735 – 22 February 1787), born in Norfolk, England, became well known in Bath, Somerset; he was a writer, particularly about agriculture, and founded notable societies.
Life
Rack was born in Attleborough, Norfolk, about 1735, so ...
(c.1735–1787), English writer
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Reinhard Rack
Reinhard Rack (born 7 August 1945 in Leoben, Styria) is an Austrian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (1995–2009). He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, which is part of the European People's Party, and was s ...
(born 1945), Austrian politician
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Tom Rack, American actor
Transportation
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Rack and pinion, a gear arrangement commonly used in vehicle steering
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Rack lift, an elevator which runs on vertical rails
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Rack railway
A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails. The trains are fitted with one or more cog wheels or pinions that mesh with th ...
, a train propelled using a toothed rail
* Rack, in horseriding, a quick, four-beat
ambling gait
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Racks railway station
Racks railway station was a railway station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, south of Dumfries, OS NGR NY 033 743, serving and effectively creating the village of Racks near the Lochar Water, 4 miles ESE of Dumfries; a rural community with ...
, a former railway station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Other uses
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Laboratory drying rack Laboratory drying rack is a pegboard for hanging and draining glassware in a laboratory. It is available in different varieties and sizes. It can be used for different materials of glassware in the laboratory room such as funnels, pipettes, mixi ...
, 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), a Web server interface for Ruby
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Racking
Racking, often referred to as Soutirage or Soutirage traditionnel (meaning racking in French), also filtering or fining, is the process of moving wine or beer from one container to another using gravity rather than a pump, which can be disruptiv ...
, the transfer of a liquid (such as wine) from one container to another
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Racking focus
A focus puller or first assistant camera (1st AC) is a member of a film crew's camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain the camera lens's optical focus on whatever subject or action is being filmed.
"Pulling focus" refers to ...
, a photography technique
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Rack of lamb
A rack of lamb or carré d'agneau (though this may also refer to other cuts) is a cut of lamb cut perpendicularly to the spine, and including 16 ribs or chops. At retail, it is usually sold 'single' (sawn longitudinally and including the 8 ribs on ...
, a cut of lamb meat
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Racks and quandles
In mathematics, racks and quandles are sets with binary operations satisfying axioms analogous to the Reidemeister moves used to manipulate knot diagrams.
While mainly used to obtain invariants of knots, they can be viewed as algebraic construct ...
, concepts in abstract algebra
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Rack (torture)
The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one or both ends. The victim's ankles are fastened to one roller and the wrists are chained to the other. As the in ...
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Receptor for activated C kinase 1 (RACK1)
See also
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RACK (disambiguation)
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Wrack (disambiguation)
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