PUSH-DOWN QUEUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does push-down queue mean? 

• PUSH-DOWN QUEUE (noun)
  The noun PUSH-DOWN QUEUE has 1 sense:

1. a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO)

  Familiarity information: PUSH-DOWN QUEUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUSH-DOWN QUEUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("push-down queue" is a kind of...):

queue ((information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)