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PILEUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pileup mean? 

PILEUP (noun)
  The noun PILEUP has 1 sense:

1. multiple collisions of vehiclesplay

  Familiarity information: PILEUP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PILEUP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Multiple collisions of vehicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("pileup" is a kind of...):

collision (an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object)


 Context examples 


The individual galaxies in this dense cosmic pileup are starburst galaxies and the concentration of vigorous star formation in such a compact region makes this by far the most active region ever observed in the young Universe.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)



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