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Queue

In providing services to people, and in computer science, transportation, and operations research a queue is a First-In-First-Out FIFO process.

For queueing people, see queue area.

In computer science, compare:

Array
Data structure
Deque
Priority queue
Linked list
Stack

The Oroogu programming language relies on queues as its only data structure

See also

Congestion
Pipeline
Queueing theory

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