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:
“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)
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“—First a shiver, and then a thrill,
Then something decidedly like a spill,—
And the parson was sitting up on a rock,
At half-past nine by the meet’n’-house clock,—
Just the hour of the Earthquake shock!
MWhat do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)