Rack
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Template:Wiktionary Rack may mean:
- Rack (torture), a torture device
- Rack (knot theory), an algebraic object used in knot theory
- Rack and pinion, a type of gear used for steering an automobile
- 19-inch rack, a standardized system for mounting computers and other electronic modules in a vertical frame
- Rack railway
- to Rack is to distort or to tend to distort, laterally as in changing a rectangle to a non-rectangular parallelogram. It is a notion particularly important in naval architecture.
Rack may also mean:
- A triangular holder used to set up billiard balls; see billiards
- To transfer a liquid, such as wine, from one container to another; see wine making
- The set of equipment carried up a climb; see glossary of climbing terms
- A woman's breasts, in American English slang; see body parts slang