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# Queue | ||
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In computer science, a queue is a particular kind of abstract data | ||
type or collection in which the entities in the collection are | ||
kept in order and the principle (or only) operations on the | ||
collection are the addition of entities to the rear terminal | ||
position, known as enqueue, and removal of entities from the | ||
front terminal position, known as dequeue. This makes the queue | ||
a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) data structure. In a FIFO data | ||
structure, the first element added to the queue will be the | ||
first one to be removed. This is equivalent to the requirement | ||
that once a new element is added, all elements that were added | ||
before have to be removed before the new element can be removed. | ||
Often a peek or front operation is also entered, returning the | ||
value of the front element without dequeuing it. A queue is an | ||
example of a linear data structure, or more abstractly a | ||
sequential collection. | ||
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Representation of a FIFO (first in, first out) queue | ||
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![Queue](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Data_Queue.svg) | ||
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## References | ||
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[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue_(abstract_data_type)) |