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Queue (/ k j uː /; French pronunciation:) may refer to: Queue area , or queue, a line or area where people wait for goods or services Arts, entertainment, and media
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 usage) or line ( American usage), and the people are said to be waiting or standing in a queue or in line , respectively.
In the study of queue networks one typically tries to obtain the equilibrium distribution of the network, although in many applications the study of the transient state is fundamental. Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. [1] A queueing model is constructed so that queue lengths and waiting time can be ...
The British meaning is based on the idea that the topic will be on the table for only a short time and is there for the purpose of being discussed and voted on; the American meaning is based on the idea of leaving the topic on the table indefinitely and thereby disposing of it, i.e. killing its discussion.
The operations of a queue make it a first-in-first-out (FIFO) data structure. In a FIFO data structure, the first element added to the queue will be the first one to be removed. This is equivalent to the requirement that once a new element is added, all elements that were added before have to be removed before the new element can be removed.
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) where the oldest (first) entry, or "head" of the queue, is processed first.
Later historians have noted the queue looking more like Cossack chupryna as an inconsistency in the picture. (From the cover of Martino Martini's Regni Sinensis a Tartari devastati enarratio, 1661.) The queue was a specifically male hairstyle worn by the Manchu from central Manchuria and later imposed on the Han Chinese during the Qing dynasty.
A queue on an open sidewalk in Poland Cutting in line (also known as line/queue jumping , butting , barging , budging , bunking , skipping , breaking , ditching , shorting , pushing in , or cutsies [ 1 ] ) is the act of entering a queue or line at any position other than the end.