queuing

queuing

The process of lining up items to be processed. Queuing may refer to packets in a network that are waiting to be transmitted to the next node as well as to telephone callers sitting in a "hold queue" waiting to be answered. Depending on assigned priorities, items may leave the queue in a different order than when they arrived. See traffic engineering methods, queue, message queue, print queue and LIFO.

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