单词 | first in, first out |
释义 | > as lemmasfirst in, first out e. first in, first out. extracted from firstadj.adv.n.2 (a) (The principle that) the first one to arrive is the first one to leave. ΚΠ 1839 Army & Navy Chron. 5 Sept. 150/1 The language usually held in other kinds of fancy scavengering, ‘First in first out’, obtains no degree in this; the maxim having been supplanted by..‘having got once got your hands in, there stick’. 1877 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 16 Aug. The running rule is first in first out; sometimes on one division, sometime on another. 1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 40/2 Chain gang , crew assigned to pool service, working first in, first out. 1977 E. Ambler Send no More Roses v. 89 It's to be first in, first out, with a points bonus for every month of overseas service. 2000 M. Thomas in M. Seear Man. Trop. Pediatrics xxi. 401/2 New items must be placed behind the existing stock to ensure correct rotation—first in first out. (b) Economics. = fifo n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [adjective] > relating to accounting methods first in, first out1934 fifo1945 LIFO1945 add-back1954 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [adverb] > designating accounting method first in, first out1934 1934 Jrnl. Accountancy Nov. 344 Shall cost be on the basis of ‘first in, first out’? 1936 N. L. Burton Introd. Cost Accounting vii. 109 When the first-in, first-out method is used, goods received are entered at actual cost—invoice price plus freight, etc.… Subsequent issues are priced at the cost of the second shipment received. 1965 Economist 31 July 470/2 Most companies in this country use the first-in-first-out (FIFO) system [of stocktaking]. 2002 E. McLaney & P. Atrill Accounting (rev. ed.) iii. 79 Using the first in, first out approach, the first 9,000 tonnes of coal are assumed to be those that are sold and the remainder will comprise the closing stock. (c) Computing. (Designating, relating to, or involving) a procedure in which the first item removed from a buffer, queue, etc., is the one that has been in it the longest. Abbreviated FIFO: see fifo n. 2. Cf. last adv., adj., and n.4 Phrases 2c(c). ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > set of instructions > FIFO or LIFO fifo1966 first in, first out1966 LIFO1968 society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [adjective] > sets of instructions > FIFO or LIFO fifo1966 first in, first out1966 LIFO1968 1966 IBM Systems Jrnl. 5 84 Another Class-1 algorithm, called fifo (first in, first out), has been investigated. fifo always replaces the block having spent the longest time in memory. 1973 P. B. Hansen Operating Syst. Princ. v. 188 The simplest replacement algorithm is first-in, first-out, which is used in the B5500 system. 1995 G. King Understanding & Designing Computer Networks 200 Spooling is a queue process, based on a first in, first out system. 2008 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 366 662 The ALU switches between at least two arithmetic functions and..a small FIFO (first in, first out memory buffer). < as lemmas |
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