Heap

Heap may refer to:

Computer science
  • Heap (data structure), a data structure commonly used to implement a priority queue
  • Heap (or free store), an area of memory used for dynamic memory allocation
Mathematics
  • Heap (mathematics), a generalization of a group
Comics
  • The Heap, a Golden Age comic book character similar to but well pre-dating Marvel Comics' Man-Thing. Later re-imagined by Todd McFarlane for his series Spawn

For people named Heap, see Heap (surname).

HEAP as an acronym may refer to:

  • High Explosive, Armor-Piercing ammunition and ordnance
  • High Explosive Anti-Personnel ammunition and ordnance (i.e. usually French supplied weapons with English translation of manuals).
  • Home Energy Assistance Program of New York, Ohio, and other states
  • Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod, an idea put forth in Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon, consisting of bundled information pertaining to guerilla warfare

Famous quotes containing the word heap:

    “Squalor spreads its hideous length
    through the carts and the asses’ feet,
    squalor coils and reopens
    and creeps under barrow
    and heap of refuse....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the arts have broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.”
    —Jane Heap (c. 1880–1964)

    “We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)