stackup

See also: stack up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from stack up.

Noun

stackup (countable and uncountable, plural stackups)

1. (engineering) A diagram used to calculate the effects of accumulated variation in dimensions and tolerances; the effects thus diagrammed.

   tolerance stackup

   They failed to account for the tolerance stackup, which cost us a ton of scrap and weeks of lead time.

See also

• buildup
• pileup

 

Anagrams

• tack-ups, tacks up, upstack