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stack machine

stack machine noun: a real or emulated computer that uses a pushdown stack rather than individual machine registers to evaluate each subexpression in a program.

Noun

stack machine (plural stack machines)

  1. A real or emulated computer that uses a pushdown stack rather than individual machine registers to evaluate each subexpression in a program.

Forms of stack machine

pluralstack machines

Questions about stack machine

What does stack machine mean?
Stack machine means a real or emulated computer that uses a pushdown stack rather than individual machine registers to evaluate each subexpression in a program.
What part of speech is stack machine?
Stack machine is a noun.
What is the plural of stack machine?
The plural of stack machine is stack machines.

Words near stack machine in the dictionary

  1. stack interchange
  2. stack interchanges
  3. stack it
  4. stack light
  5. stack lights
  6. stack machine
  7. stack machines
  8. stack off
  9. stack process
  10. stack rank
  11. stack ranked

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