Meaning of QUEUE
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- [n] a braid of hair at the back of the head
- [n] (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
- [n] a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
- [v] form a queue, form a line, stand in line
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| | Synonyms: | | line up, queue up, waiting line |
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| | See Also: | | braid, bread line, breadline, checkout line, chow line, gas line, line, list, listing, plait, push-down queue, reception line, stand, stand up, ticket line, tress, twist, unemployment line, wait | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Queue\, n. [F. See {Cue}.]
(a) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
(b) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
\Queue\, v. t.
To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
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| | Definition: | | A first-in first-out data structure used to sequence multiple demands for a resource such as a printer, processor or communications channel. Objects are added to the tail of the queue and taken off the head. A typical use of queues in an operating system involves a user command which places something on a queue, e.g. a file on a printer queue or a job on a job queue, and a background process or "demon" which takes things off and processes them (e.g. prints or executes them). Another common use is to pass data between an interrupt handler and a user process. |
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