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FIFO

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FIFO

(First In First Out) A storage method that retrieves the item stored for the longest time. Contrast with LIFO. See traffic engineering methods.


FIFO [′fī‚fō]
(industrial engineering)

FIFO - first-in first-out


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For lifting the compound to the fight temperature level, the company's FIFO (first in, first out) rubber injection unit is used, together with a tempering channel.
Simply speaking, FIFO matches older expenses against current revenues, while LIFO matches more recent expenses against that same revenue.
Oki succeeded in integrating its original FIFO (First-In First-Out) memory and image processing circuit into a single chip and significantly reducing CCD camera noise in dim light, something which could not be done before.
 
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