title: Heap
text: Heap or HEAP may refer to:
  
  Computing and mathematics
   Heap (data structure), a data structure commonly used to implement a priority queue
   Heap (mathematics), a generalization of a group
   Heap (programming) (or free store), an area of memory for dynamic memory allocation
   Heapsort, a comparison-based sorting algorithm
   Heap overflow, a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area
   Sorites paradox, also known as the paradox of the heap
  
  Other uses
   Heap (surname)
   Heaps (surname)
   Heap leaching, an industrial mining process
   Heap (comics), a golden-age comic book character 
   Heap, Bury, a former district in England
   "The Heap" (Fargo), a 2014 television episode
   High Explosive, Armor-Piercing, ammunition and ordnance
   Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod, an idea in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon
  
  See also
   Skandha, Buddhist concept describing the aggregated contents of mental activity
   Beap or bi-parental heap, a data structure
   Treap, a form of binary search tree data structure
   Heapey, a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, England
   Pile (disambiguation)