riser

plural risers

1. Someone or something which rises.
2. A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.

   The choir stood on risers for the performance.

3. businessA vertical part of a step on a staircase.
4. archeryThe main body of a bow.
5. A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).
6. A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
7. A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
8. A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
9. engineeringA reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.
10. colloquialcountableAn erection of the penis.
11. An audio effect that gradually increases in frequency, pitch, or volume.

plural Risers

1. A surname.