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the fact that these are well-accepted terms in modem standards jargon does not make it an acceptable usage. Whoever coined this term did not really know what the workd means. The point is that general use of this term is confusing. As for stack in the OED, I would use meaning 1.f from OED 2 In a computer or a calculator, a set of registers or storage locations which store data in such a way that the most recently stored item is the first to be retrieved; also, a list of items so stored, a push-down list. First citation: 1960 E. W. Dijkstra in Numericshe Math II.312 Don't be so quick to assume things about the OED! :-) For tree, the definition you want is 6b Any structure or figure, natural or artificial, of branched form. In the citations for 6b usage, we find: 1978 Nature 24 Aug 745/1. The amount of work involved in searching a tree of moves is B[superscript]D, where B (the branching factor) is the average number of alternatives throughout the tree, and D is the depth of search. Furthermore, in both the tree and stack case, you can find old traditional meanings which are a good match conceptually for the modern CS usages. This is NOT true of homologize! Anyway, to my mind, any jargon not in OED-2 is VERY suspect (OED-2 is more "with it" than you think, look up for examples, the perfect definitions of bug and kludge in the computery sense).