A holding container for work items. There are queues that contain cases and activities in the Workplace, and queues of articles in the knowledge base.

A group of items that is waiting to be serviced or processed.

A holding area for items before they are processed. Salesforce uses queues in a number of different features and technologies.

late 15c., "band attached to a letter with seals dangling on the free end," from French queue "a tail," from Old French cue, coe "tail" (12c., also "penis"), fr [..]

"to stand in a line," 1893, from queue (n.). Earlier "put hair up in a braid" (1777). Related: Queued; queueing. Churchill is said to have coined Queuetopia (1950), to describe Bri [..]

Waiting time. [D03726]

line

a line of people or vehicles waiting for something line up: form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store" (information processing) an o [..]

A sequence of stored computer data or programs awaiting processing that are processed in the order first-in first-out (FIFO).

(say kew) a line of people waiting their turn. The same word also means a pigtail at the back of the head

n. A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.

A holding place for items (an inventory) as they wait for the next action in a work stream. See also inventory, work in process.

A set of items, such as telephone calls or packets, arranged in sequence. Note: Queues are used to store events occurring at random times and to service them according to a prescribed discipline that may be fixed or adaptive.

Internetworking Dictionary A backup of packets awaiting processing.

(v.) To line up. In computer science, queuing refers to lining up jobs for a computer or device. For example, if you want to print a number of documents, the operating system (or a special print spool [..]

An orderly line or file of people waiting for a product, service of opportunity. Members are highly likely to observe common courtesy and recognized if not verbalized rules of conduct.

A temporary storage location in a computer, reserved for data awaiting processing, usually organized chronologically (first-in-first-out) or according to some other pre-established priority. Also refe [..]

A sequence of items such as packets or print jobs waiting to be processed. For example, a print queue holds files that are waiting to be printed.

A queue is a list of jobs that are awaiting to be processed. When when a job is sent to a queue, it is simply added to the list of jobs. A temporary delay in providing service caused by the inability [..]

A list of tasks waiting to be executed. I.E - A printer queue (multiple print jobs waiting in order to be printed).

Just like a Queue in computer science, it's a holding place that lets you store messages and read them back asynchronously.

To avoid any confusion, this term is pronounced exactly like the letter "Q". It is not pronounced "kay" or "kyoo-ee" like some people seem to think it is. A queue is a li [..]

A backup of packets or messages awaiting processing.

A data structure to hold objects awaiting some sort of service. There are two basic types: FIFO (First In First Out) and LIFO (Last In First Out). LIFO queues are often called stacks. Internally threa [..]

A queue is a waiting list of things to be processed. Many computers provide printing queues, for example. If something is being printed and the user requests that another item be printed, the second i [..]

tail (oxtail)

 (f) tail.

(n) a line of people or vehicles waiting for something(n) (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted(n) a braid of hair at the back of the head(v)  [..]

A sequence of items such as packets or print jobs waiting to be processed. For example, a print queue holds files that are waiting to be printed.

Gare la queue des Allemands. Before you quarrel, count the consequences. (See QUERELLE.)

A storage area where tasks wait to be processed by the computer or other device. In simplest terms it is a waiting line. Items normally come out of the queue in the same order they went in, although c [..]

A first-in first-out data structure used for lining up requests for a resource such as a printer or communications channel.

HITs you have accepted and are awaiting submission. Found under the “HITs Assigned to you” tab on MTurk.

A closely spaced collection of vehicles.

A number of vehicles delayed at a node.

A line of vehicles or pedestrians waiting to be served. Queueing Theory is the systematic analysis of queueing behavior under various assumptions. In conventional travel forecasting, queueing is not e [..]

A list of tasks waiting to be used or processed.

A sequence of messages or jobs that are held in temporary storage awaiting transmission or processing.

(f) tail.

tail (of beef; oxtail).

A queue, in computer networking, is a collection of data packets collectively waiting to be transmitted by a network device using a per-defined structure methodology.

(Pronounced like "cue") n. A line, as in a group of people lined up for something. R Back to the top RASHER n. 1. Slice, as in, a RASHER of bacon.

Tail of a beast. Raguly

Where an email message goes after you send it but before the list owner approves it or before the list server gets around to sending it. Some list software allows you to queue a message and then set a time to send it automatically, either during a quiet period on the server or at a time when human approval isn’t available. Read email

See first in, first out (FIFO) queue.

standard library first-in-first-out sequence. TC++PL 17.3.2.

A term adapted from Lean Manufacturing. An inventory of items that wait for the next action in the work stream.