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