Queue (disambiguation)
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Queue may refer to:

In society:
  • Queue area
    Queue area
    Queue areas are places in which people queue for goods or services. Examples include checking out groceries or other goods that have been collected in a self service shop, in a shop without self service, at an ATM, at a ticket desk, a city bus, or in a taxi stand.Queueing is a phenomenon in a...

    , where a line of people wait. The line of people is the queue.
  • Queue (hairstyle)
    Queue (hairstyle)
    The queue or cue is a hairstyle in which the hair is worn long and gathered up into a ponytail. It was worn traditionally by certain Native American groups and the Manchu of Manchuria.-Manchu Queue:...

    , a Chinese pigtail (or ponytail), is also known as a queue


In mathematics:
  • Queueing theory
    Queueing theory
    Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. The theory enables mathematical analysis of several related processes, including arriving at the queue, waiting in the queue , and being served at the front of the queue...

    , the study of waiting lines


In computer science:
  • Queue (data structure), in computing is an abstract data type
    • Deque
      Deque
      In computer science, a double-ended queue is an abstract data structure that implements a queue for which elements can only be added to or removed from the front or back...

       or Double Ended queue
    • Priority queue
      Priority queue
      A priority queue is an abstract data type in computer programming.It is exactly like a regular queue or stack data structure, but additionally, each element is associated with a "priority"....

    • Circular queue
  • Message queue
    Message queue
    In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components used for interprocess communication, or for inter-thread communication within the same process. They use a queue for messaging – the passing of control or of content...

  • E-Mail queue, used by SMTP e-mail servers to process incoming and outgoing e-mail into a FIFO
    FIFO
    FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out, an abstraction related to ways of organizing and manipulation of data relative to time and prioritization...

     buffer, or placing deferred mail into a non-linear waiting buffer
  • Load (computing)
    Load (computing)
    In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average system load over a period of time...

     or queue, system load of a computer's operating system
  • ACM Queue
    ACM Queue
    ACM Queue is a computer magazine published by the Association for Computing Machinery . Steve Bourne helped found the magazine when he was President of the ACM and he is now Chair of the Advisory Board. The magazine is produced by computing professionals and is intended for computing professionals...

    , a computer magazine

See also

  • First in, first out
  • First-come, first-served
    First-come, first-served
    First-come, first-served – sometimes first-in, first-served and first-come, first choice – is a service policy whereby the requests of customers or clients are attended to in the order that they arrived, without other biases or preferences. The policy can be employed when processing sales orders,...

  • Que (disambiguation)
  • Cue (disambiguation)
  • Q (disambiguation)
    Q (disambiguation)
    Q is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet. It may also refer to:*Q research software, a software package for the analysis of market research data*Q source, also known as Q document, a hypothetical early Gospel writing...

  • Q
    Q
    Q is the seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.- History :The Semitic sound value of Qôp was , a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones...

    , the letter
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