Rack or racks may refer to:

Storage and installation

* Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted *

Bicycle rack The ambiguous term bicycle rack or bike rack may refer to: *Bicycle carrier, a device attached to a vehicle (e.g., to a car or bus) to which bicycles can be mounted for transport *Bicycle parking rack, a stationary fixture to which a bicycle can be ...

, a frame for storing bicycles when not in use * Bustle rack, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles *

Drying rack The term 'clothes horse' is used to refer to a portable frame upon which wet laundry is hung to dry by evaporation. The frame is usually made of wood, metal or plastic. It is a cheap low-tech piece of laundry equipment, as opposed to a clothes d ...

, for hanging clothing to dry * Firearm rack, for storing firearms * Pallet racking, structural racks (usually steel) for storing palletised loads * Rack (billiards), for placing billiard balls in their starting positions * Roof rack, a system used to carry items on top of a car * Standardized equipment racks **

19-inch rack A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is wide. The 19 inch dimension includes the edges or "ears" that protrude from each side of the equ ...

and

23-inch rack A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is wide. The 19 inch dimension includes the edges or "ears" that protrude from each side of the equ ...

, commonly used for computer, communications, and AV equipment **

Rack unit A rack unit (abbreviated U or RU) is a unit of measure defined as . It is most frequently used as a measurement of the overall height of 19-inch and 23-inch rack frames, as well as the height of equipment that mounts in these frames, whereby th ...

, equipment sizing measure ** International Standard Payload Rack, used in spaceflight * Toast rack, a serving piece

Media

* ''The Rack'' (album), debut album by Asphyx * ''The Rack'' (1915 film), an American silent drama film * ''The Rack'' (1956 film), a courtroom drama starring Paul Newman * "Racks" (song), song by rapper Y. C.

People

* Rack (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), fictitious character * Edmund Rack (c.1735–1787), English writer * Reinhard Rack (born 1945), Austrian politician *

Tom Rack Tom Rack is a Canadian actor and writer best known for his portrayal of henchman Zigesfeld in the 1991 film '' If Looks Could Kill'', and for twice portraying physicist Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. Career A character actor with an impactful presence, ...

, American actor

Transportation

Rack and pinion A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a circular gear (the '' pinion'') engaging a linear gear (the ''rack''). Together, they convert rotational motion into linear motion. Rotating the pinion causes the rack to be driven ...

, a gear arrangement commonly used in vehicle steering *

Rack lift A rack lift is a type of elevator which consists of a cage attached to vertical rails affixed to the walls of a tower or shaft and which is propelled up and down by means of an electric motor which drives a pinion gear that engages a rack gear ...

, an elevator which runs on vertical rails * Rack railway, a train propelled using a toothed rail * Rack, in horseriding, a quick, four-beat

ambling gait An ambling gait or amble is any of several four-beat intermediate horse gaits, all of which are faster than a walk but usually slower than a canter and always slower than a gallop. Horses that amble are sometimes referred to as "gaited", particu ...

* Racks railway station, a former railway station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Other uses

* Laboratory drying rack, a pegboard for hanging and draining glassware in a laboratory * Rack, a climbing term for the set of equipment carried up a climb *

Rack (web server interface) Rack is a modular interface between web servers and web applications developed in the Ruby programming language. With Rack, application programming interfaces (APIs) for web frameworks and middleware are wrapped into a single method call handli ...

, a Web server interface for Ruby * Racking, the transfer of a liquid (such as wine) from one container to another * Racking focus, a photography technique * Rack of lamb, a cut of lamb meat * Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra * Rack (torture) * Receptor for activated C kinase 1 (RACK1)

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