first in first out (English, noun)
expansion: first in first out (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A method of inventory accounting that values items withdrawn from inventory at the cost of the oldest item assumed to remain in inventory.
tags: uncountable
topics: management
glosses: A policy of assigning priority to tasks and assignments that have arrived for service first.
tags: uncountable
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of queue data structure in which the oldest added items are retrieved first.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: first-in-first-out
tags: alternative
form: first-in first-out
tags: alternative
form: first in, first out
tags: alternative
form: first-in, first-out
tags: alternative