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Queue may refer to:

In society:

• Queue area, where a line of people wait. The line of people is the queue.
• Queue (hairstyle), a Manchurian pigtail (or ponytail), is also known as a queue

In mathematics:

• Queueing theory, the study of waiting lines

In computer science:

• Queue (abstract data type), a type of data structure in computer science
  • Double ended queue, also known as a deque
  • 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

See also

• First in, first out
• First-come, first-served
• Que (disambiguation)
• Cue (disambiguation)
• Q (disambiguation)
• Q, the letter