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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 vehicles
Familiarity information: PILEUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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