Queue may refer to:
In society:
- Queue area, where a line of people wait. The line of people is the queue.
- Queue (hairstyle), a Chinese pigtail (or ponytail), is also known as a queue
In mathematics:
- Queueing theory, the study of waiting lines
In computer science:
- Queue (data structure), in computing is an abstract data type
- Deque or Double Ended queue
- Priority queue
- Circular queue
- Message queue
- E-Mail queue, used by SMTP e-mail servers to process incoming and outgoing e-mail into a FIFO buffer, or placing deferred mail into a non-linear waiting buffer
- Load (computing) or queue, system load of a computer's operating system
- ACM Queue, a computer magazine
Famous quotes containing the word queue:
“English people apparently queue up as a sort of hobby. A family man might pass a mild autumn evening by taking the wife and kids to stand in the cinema queue for a while and then leading them over for a few minutes in the sweetshop queue and then, as a special treat for the kids, saying “Perhaps we’ve time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.””
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)