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sandpile

sandpile noun: a pile of sand.

Noun

sandpile (plural sandpiles)

  1. A pile of sand.
    • Near-synonym: sandhill
    • Are there more grains of sand in a sandpile than there are atoms in a single grain of sand? This is not a precisely formulated problem, because the size of a sandpile is not well defined. The size of a grain of sand is also somewhat uncertain. Geologists usually call rock particles “sand” when the...2010, Göran Grimvall, “Chapter 1: Numbers”, in Quantify! A Crash Course in Smart Thinking, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    sandhill
  2. Any of several models in which a series of connected nodes interact with their neighbours according to fixed rules.

Synonyms of sandpile

Forms of sandpile

pluralsandpiles

Origin of sandpile

From sand + pile.

Questions about sandpile

What does sandpile mean?
Sandpile means a pile of sand.
What part of speech is sandpile?
Sandpile is a noun.
What is the plural of sandpile?
The plural of sandpile is sandpiles.

Words near sandpile in the dictionary

  1. sandpapery
  2. sandpeep
  3. sandpeeps
  4. sandperch
  5. sandperches
  6. sandpile
  7. sandpiles
  8. sandpipe
  9. sandpiper
  10. sandpipers
  11. sandpipes

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