stackable

adjectiveB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — stack sits at #3,299Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Stackable means shaped so that many can be piled up neatly. Stackable chairs, stackable boxes.

The saving is in storage rather than in use, which is why village halls own nothing else. A stackable design usually gives up some comfort or strength for the shape.

Definitions of stackable

1adjectivestackableShaped so that many can be piled up neatly.B2
“Forty stackable chairs fit in a cupboard the size of a wardrobe.”

stackable is a quality.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*(s)teg- (pole)
Dutch
stapel
Proto-Germanic
*stakkaz — a barn; rick; haystack
Old Norse
stakkr — a barn; haystack; heap; pile
Middle English
stack
English
stack
English, today
stackable

From stack + -able. stack comes from Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”). The data structure sense is a Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Containers & Packaging

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stackable in the wild

In the 1990s, the company began creating designer versions of the 1006 chair, such as the stackable Hudson chair and the 111 Navy Chair made from recycled plastic.
Emeco 1006
Bulk boxes can be designed to hold many different types of items such as plastic pellets, watermelons, electronic components, and even liquids; some bulk boxes are stackable.
Bulk box
Some models have slots for optional slide-in modules to add ports or features to the base stackable unit.
Stackable switch
Square milk jugs are stackable and 9% more can be shipped in the same space.
Square milk jug
Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 Series or in computer networking terms are stackable routers and switches designed and manufactured by Avaya.
Avaya ERS 5600 Series

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the stakkr family

stack stacks

stackable — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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