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  • 1queue — ▪ I. queue queue 1 [kjuː] noun [countable] 1. a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc; = line AmE: • There may be long queues outside stores at sale times. ˈdole queue …

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  • 2queue — queue1 S3 [kju:] n [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: tail , from Latin cauda, coda] 1.) BrE a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc, or a line of vehicles waiting to move American Equivalent: linebe/stand/wait in a queue …

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  • 3queue */ — I UK [kjuː] / US [kju] noun [countable] Word forms queue : singular queue plural queues 1) a) British a line of people waiting for something in a shop or similar place. The usual American word is line queue for: There was a long queue for tickets …

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  • 4queue — queue1 [ kju ] noun count 1. ) COMPUTING a set of jobs waiting to be processed by a computer 2. ) MAINLY BRITISH a LINE of people waiting for something: be/stand in a queue: We stood in a queue for over an hour. join a queue: A woman joined the… …

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  • 5queue — 1 noun (C) BrE 1 a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc, or a line of vehicles waiting to move; line 1 (22) AmE: The queue for the cinema went right round the building. | We were stuck in the queue for half an hour. |… …

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  • 6queue — queuer, n. /kyooh/, n., v., queued, queuing. n. 1. a braid of hair worn hanging down behind. 2. a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn. 3. Computers. a FIFO organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for …

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  • 7queue — I. noun Etymology: French, literally, tail, from Old French cue, coe, Latin cauda, coda Date: 1748 1. a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head 2. a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles 3. a. a sequence of messages or …

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  • 8Batch queue — sometimes also known as job queue , is a system software data structuremaintained by job scheduler software. Users submit their programs that they want executed, jobs , to the queue for batch processing. The scheduler software maintains the queu …

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  • 9Multilevel Feedback Queue — Der Begriff Multilevel Feedback Queue bezeichnet einen dynamischen Prioritätsscheduling Algorithmus. Bei diesem Verfahren werden Prozesse nach ihrem bisherigen Ressourcenverbrauch dynamisch in mehrere Warteschlangen (engl. queue)… …

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  • 10Multilevel feedback queue — In computer science, a multilevel feedback queue is a scheduling algorithm. It is intended to meet the following design requirements for multimode systems: Give preference to short jobs. Give preference to I/O bound processes. Separate processes… …

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