Pile-up

Quick meaning: Pile-up is a noun meaning (colloquial) A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially.

Meaning

(colloquial) A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially.

More Meanings

1. An accumulation that occurs over time, especially one which is not welcome.

Example Sentences

Cusp-like trapezoidal shaping functions have been shown to produce the best signal-to-noise ratio and still maintain short duration to avoid pile-up of events.

Evidently, the annealing in NO ambient results in a pile-up of nitrogen at the oxide/SiC interface and this results in a reduction of interface states near the conduction band edge of 4H-SiC [16,30,31].

If the supervisor deals with daily workload in an orderly way and does not put pressure on the employee about a pile-up of work, then the employee's perception of pressure will be reduced and the employee will not suffer from work pressure stress.

Because family crises evolve and are resolved over a period of time, families seldom are dealing with a single stressor, but rather, our longitudinal data suggest they experience a pile-up of stressors and strains (i.e., demands), particularly in the aftermath of a major stressor, such as a death, a major role change for one member, or a natural disaster.

Word Forms

• pile-ups
• pileup

Synonyms for pile-up

Depending on context, synonyms include dogpile.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pileup, pile, piling, accumulation, congestion, heap.

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