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📦 To remove a pile 📊 To widen data 🖥️ To remove from stack
to unstack

to unstack

4.9
Take the top item from a stack in a computer program
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈstæk/
  • Specialized
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  • Developers often unstack items from the call stack during debugging.

Examples

  • When an error occurs, the system must unstack several frames to recover.

  • The program will unstack the last command to undo the previous action.

  • I will unstack the boxes tomorrow.

  • The programmer needs to unstack the data structure.

  • The program will unstack the last command to undo the previous action.

  • When an error occurs, the system must unstack several frames to recover.

  • Developers often unstack items from the call stack during debugging.

Antonyms

to stack
138 1.6

To put things in a neat pile one on top of another

Surface Forms

unstack infinitive
unstacked past
unstacked past participle
unstacking present participle
unstacks third person singular

Morphology

unstack = stack (transparent) = un + stack

The verb is the straightforward negation/reversal of 'stack' (remove the top item), a direct and productive meaning for 'un-'.

Etymology

Unstack again breaks into un- 'remove' and stack 'a pile'; in computing a 'stack' is a pile of actions or frames with the last thing added on top. So, to unstack is to take off the top item or frame, often to undo or go back one step.