Rack

Rack may mean:

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• Rack (torture), a torture device. This is the original meaning.
• An open framework used to store things in or hold things up.
• 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 .
• See 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.
• A pair of antlers.

Rack may also mean:

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• 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.