pushdown

English

Etymology

push +‎ down; by analogy with a spring-loaded stack of plates in a cafeteria.

Adjective

pushdown (not comparable)

  1. (computing) Describing a stack in which items are removed in a LIFO manner from the end at which they were added.

Noun

pushdown (plural pushdowns)

  1. A pushdown automaton.
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