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queueing, queuing, vbl. n.|ˈkjuːɪŋ|
[f. queue v.]
a. The action of waiting in a queue. Also const. up.
1927Brit. Weekly 21 Apr. 55/3 When the public-houses opened their doors in the evening there was no queuing-up. 1946G. Mikes How to be an Alien i. 44 Queueing is the national pastime of an otherwise dispassionate race. The English are rather shy about it, and deny that they adore it. 1948M. Laski Tory Heaven ii. 28 James was delighted to see a row of taxis... There was none of that queuing he had been led to expect. 1951Jrnl. R. Statist. Soc. B. XIII. 180, I assumed that a newly arriving vehicle could always find somewhere in the station yard to unload, so that the problem was in effect not one of queueing. 1956L. H. C. Tippett Statistics (ed. 2) vii. 125 This is typical of a number of congestion problems that arise in telephony, in road and rail traffic, in the queuing of patients at a hospital, and so on. 1958Manch. Guardian Weekly 22 May 15/4 Even with a Ponselle a day or two of queueing was all you needed. 1967Times Rev. Industry Aug. 28/2 These techniques include stock control, linear programming and queueing. 1979Bookseller 23 June 2816/3 To avoid queueing..we did not ask visitors to register attendance.
b. attrib., as queueing theory, the mathematical study of the structure and behaviour of queues of people or articles.
1951Jrnl. R. Statist. Soc. B. XIII. 168 The different people associated with a queueing system will assess its merits and demerits in different ways. Ibid. 181 The congestion should be measured at the peak, but this would need the non-steady solution of a complex queueing problem with non-steady traffic conditions. 1954Science News XXXIV. 112 One particular application [of operational research] is that of queueing theory. This was employed during the design of London Airport and has also been used for such diverse subjects as omnibus routing, toll gate staffing, and determining the number of grinding wheels required by a toolroom. 1966Listener 3 Feb. 162/2 Queueing theory has in fact been used in this calculation in an attempt to relate the time on the waiting list to the number of beds made available, and the demand for these beds. 1974Gross & Harris Fundamentals Queueing Theory i. 1 ‘How long must a customer wait?’ and ‘How many people will form in the line?’ Queueing theory attempts (and in many cases succeeds) to answer these questions through detailed mathematical analysis. |