Definition of "sandpile" []

• A pile of sand (noun)
• ,(computing) any of several models in which a series of connected nodes interact with their neighbours according to fixed rules (noun)

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• "In reality, however, they're pursuing a different agenda: transforming this former sandpile into a shoppers 'and sun worshippers' paradise."
• "There was, of course, more than a grain of truth in everything I said, but those grains, no matter how numerous, need not have become the sandpile that crushed the life out of love."
• "Gornick, Vivian, sandpile of regret and, 173 — 174"