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

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Example Sentences

Jacobs and Carter had spent days stacking wigs onto more wigs, playing with cartoonishly large shapes from head to toe, trying to see what beauty and accessories might look best with the collections’ oversized garments.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

I then ask AI to analyze a collection of past chats to point out how I may be stacking the deck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

By stacking two patterned silicon nitride layers and rotating them relative to each other, the researchers can create new optical properties that do not exist in a single layer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

“This is leading to a situation where the vast majority of all new capacity will be fully allocated to HBM,” Arcuri said, referring to high-bandwidth memory that is made by stacking DRAM.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

Meanwhile the check had been brought, and Dr. Fanning was reviewing the items, stacking bills on a little tray.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez