stacking

British

/ ˈstækɪŋ /

noun

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

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Future packaging approaches increasingly involve stacking pieces of silicon on top of each other, not just side by side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

They also built vessels by stacking coils of clay rather than molding them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

But stacking a federal tax credit on top of the newly bolstered California production incentives could help give the state an edge when producers are pricing out location shoots, industry experts say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The next captain, Rodri's future, City's starting XI for Sunday's Community Shield against Arsenal - the big decisions are stacking up as Maresca begins to settle into one of the biggest jobs on the planet.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

From then on he worked slowly and methodically, stacking the wood in neat rows in the cart.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

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