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Queue (; ) may refer to:
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Queue area
Queue areas are places in which people queue (first-come, first-served) for goods or services. Such a group of people is known as a ''queue'' (British English, British usage) or ''line'' (American English, American usage), and the people are ...
, or queue, a line or area where people wait for goods or services
Arts, entertainment, and media
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ACM Queue
ACM ''Queue'' (stylized ''acmqueue'') is a bimonthly computer magazine, targeted to software engineer
Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining softwar ...
'', a computer magazine
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''The Queue'' (Sorokin novel), a 1983 novel by Russian author Vladimir Sorokin
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''The Queue'' (Abdel Aziz novel), a 2013 novel by Egyptian author Basma Abdel Aziz
Mathematics and technology
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Queue (abstract data type)
In computer science, a queue is a collection of entities that are maintained in a sequence and can be modified by the addition of entities at one end of the sequence and the removal of entities from the other end of the sequence. By convention, ...
, a type of data structure in computer science
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Circular queue
In computer science, a circular buffer, circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer (computer science), buffer as if it were connected end-to-end. This structure lends itself easily to bu ...
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Double-ended queue
In computer science, a double-ended queue (abbreviated to deque, ) is an abstract data type that generalizes a queue, for which elements can be added to or removed from either the front (head) or back (tail). It is also often called a head-t ...
, also known as a deque
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Priority queue
In computer science, a priority queue is an abstract data type similar to a regular queue (abstract data type), queue or stack (abstract data type), stack abstract data type.
In a priority queue, each element has an associated ''priority'', which ...
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FIFO (computing and electronics)
Representation of a FIFO queue
In computing and in systems theory, first in, first out (the first in is the first out), acronymized as FIFO, is a method for organizing the manipulation of a data structure (often, specifically a data buffer) wh ...
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Load (computing)
In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average system load over a period of time. It conventionally appears in the form of three numb ...
or queue, system load of a computer's operating system
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Message queue
In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components typically used for inter-process communication (IPC), or for inter- thread communication within the same process. They use a queue for messaging – the ...
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Queueing theory
Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. A queueing model is constructed so that queue lengths and waiting time can be predicted. Queueing theory is generally considered a branch of operations research because th ...
, the study of wait lines
Specific queues
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Queue for the lying-in-state of Elizabeth II
Between 14 and 19 September 2022, a Queue area, queue of mourners waited to file past the coffin of Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II while she lying in state, lay in state at Westminster Hall in London, England. Death and state funeral of Eliz ...
, contemporarily referred to as "The Queue"
Other uses
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Queue (hairstyle)
A queue or cue is a hairstyle historically worn by the Jurchen people, Jurchen and Manchu people, Manchu peoples of Manchuria, and was later required to be worn by male subjects of Qing dynasty, Qing China. The top of the scalp is shaved and the ...
, a Manchurian pigtail
See also
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Cue (disambiguation)
Cue or CUE may refer to:
Event markers
* Sensory cue, in perception (experimental psychology)
** Cueing (medicine), rehabilitation techniques for Parkinson's disease patients to improve walking
* Cue (theatrical), the trigger for an action to be c ...
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FIFO (disambiguation)
FIFO may refer to:
First in, first out
First in, first out describes a method of managing items in storage:
* FIFO in stock rotation, particularly to avoid food spoilage
* FIFO (computing and electronics), a method of queuing or memory managemen ...
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First-come, first-served
Queueing theory is the mathematical study of Queue area, waiting lines, or wikt:queue, queues. A queueing model is constructed so that queue lengths and waiting time can be predicted. Queueing theory is generally considered a branch of operatio ...
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Q (disambiguation)
Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet.
Q may also refer to:
People
* Q, pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the Cornish writer
* Q, pseudonym used by the originator of QAnon, an American far-right conspiracy theory
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Q, the letter
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Que (disambiguation)
QUE or que may refer to:
* Quebec (Que.), as the traditional abbreviation, though the postal abbreviations are now QC and previously PQ
* Que Publishing, a company which first began as a publisher of technical computer software and hardware supp ...
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