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fifo, n. (a.) orig. U.S.|ˈfaɪfəʊ|
Also FIFO.
[Acronym f. the initial letters of first in, first out.]
a. Econ. (Designating or pertaining to) a method of accounting in which the goods first acquired by a company are valued as though they are the first to be sold; = first in, first out (a) s.v. first adv. 1 g.
1945Inland Printer Jan. 40/1 There are numerous ways to figure inventory: first-in, first-out, last-in, first-out, popularly called the ‘fifo’ and ‘lifo’ methods. 1965Economist 31 July 470/2 Most companies in this country use the first-in-first-out (FIFO) system [of stocktaking]. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Sept. 1083/5 In times of high inflation companies using FIFO for stocks and historical accounts for depreciation can at one and the same time show ‘obscene’ (but fictional) profits and be heading straight for liquidation. 1980Oil Majors in 1979 (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 2 Shell's and BP's relatively large increase in net working capital reflects the application of FIFO-accounting by the two companies.
b. Computing. = first in, first out (b) s.v. first adv. 1 g. Also, a device in which this procedure is employed. Freq. attrib.
1966[see first adv. 1 g]. 1968D. E. Knuth Art of Computer Programming ii. 236 Queues are sometimes called..first-in-first-out (‘FIFO’) lists. 1968Israel Jrnl. Technol. VI. 378/2 The queueing discipline in all queues is FIFO, and at time O there are K items awaiting service. 1969P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 406 It is possible to organize lists with neither LIFO nor FIFO. 1984J. Hilton Choosing & using your Home Computer iii. 68 FIFO buffers..are an extremely common feature of most types of computer software. 1984H. M. Deitel Introd. Operating Systems (rev. ed.) ix. 219 This..causes pages to be loaded into storage and replaced under FIFO. 1984AGARD Conf. Proc. No. 361. xxix. 4 Each synchronous program stores in a FIFO (in RAM) its own data. 1985Electronics 2 Sept. 51/2 We will burst several words into the FIFO, encrypt, and then burst those words into communication memory on the board. |