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:
“We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy—for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals—than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! ‘tis hard to die by fire!”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“It’s very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled “the past,” and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)