1 → stack
2 a road accident involving a row of cars
3 to produce a particular result or impression:
4 if accounts, prices, figures, etc. stack up, they seem to be accurate or show that something is worth buying or investing in:
The economics of buying US retail and commercial banking businesses do not stack up.
To determine the remaining order, we must consider both datums and stack-up.
This will lead to stack-up errors as they add serial chains of positioners with finite stiffnesses as an afterthought, rather than designing in the multiple degrees of freedom eventually desired.
On the one hand, this can lead to the so-called tolerance stack-up.
