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stacking

British  
/ ˈstækɪŋ /

noun

  1. the arrangement of aircraft traffic in busy flight lanes, esp while waiting to land at an airport, with a minimum vertical separation for safety of 1000 feet below 29 000 feet and 2000 feet above 29 000 feet

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He had worked at Ambiance for nearly five years, first stacking boxes of clothes and then later moving into shipping.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Current commercial 3D chip technologies already use stacking, but they typically involve manufacturing semiconductor devices on separate wafers before bonding them together.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Its Mark 1 demonstrator was already in final stacking in Florida, while SpaceX's Starship has yet to complete a successful in-space propellant transfer.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Huawei said its approach focuses on improving computing efficiency, such as by stacking multiple layers of circuits within a single chip and reducing the time it takes to move data among them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

The men spent that first day digging foxholes, filling and stacking sandbags to protect their positions.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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