Queue

Queue can mean:

• Queue area, where a line of people wait. The verb queue means to form a line, and to wait for services. Queue is also the name of this line
• Queueing theory, the study of waiting lines
• Queue (data structure), in computing, a type of data structure
• Priority queue, an abstract data type in computing
• Mail queue, used by non-commercial SMTP e-mail servers like qmail and Postfix to process incoming and outgoing e-mail into a FIFO buffer, or placing deferred mail into a non-linear waiting buffer
• Another term for the system load of a computer's operating system
• The ACM Queue, a computer magazine
• Queue (hairstyle), a Chinese pigtail (or ponytail) is also known as a Queue

See also

• Query
• Que
• Cue
• Deque