dictionary definitions for "queue"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  queue
      n 1: a line of people or vehicles waiting for something [syn:
           waiting line]
      2: (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be
         performed or messages to be transmitted
      3: a braid of hair at the back of the head
      v : form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined
          up in front of the store" [syn: line up, queue up]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Queue \Queue\, n. [F. See Cue.]
     (a) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
     (b) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
         [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Queue \Queue\, v. t.
     To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:

  queue
  
     <programming> 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.
  
     (1995-05-11)
  


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