ALL meanings of fifo
FIFO
F f - abbreviation Technical meaning of FIFO first-in first-out 3
- noun fifo law: first in, first out 1
- noun Technical meaning of fifo (algorithm) (FIFO, or "queue") A data structure or hardware buffer from which items are taken out in the same order they were put in. Also known as a "shelf" from the analogy with pushing items onto one end of a shelf so that they fall off the other. A FIFO is useful for buffering a stream of data between a sender and receiver which are not synchronised - i.e. not sending and receiving at exactly the same rate. Obviously if the rates differ by too much in one direction for too long then the FIFO will become either full (blocking the sender) or empty (blocking the receiver). A Unix pipe is a common example of a FIFO. A FIFO might be (but isn't ever?) called a LILO - last-in last-out. The opposite of a FIFO is a LIFO (last-in first-out) or "stack". 1
- noun fifo first-in, first-out. 1
- noun fifo Computers. a storage and retrieval technique, used mainly for data, in which the first item stored is also the first item retrieved. 1
- noun fifo (accounting, operations, computing) First In First Out. 0
- noun fifo Fly-in fly-out. 0
- noun acronym fifo first in, first out (as an accounting principle in costing stock) 0
- noun fifo a method of valuing inventories in which items sold or used are priced at the cost of earliest acquisitions and those remaining are valued at the cost of most recent acquisitions 0
- abbreviation FIFO FIFO is a method of accounting which assumes that the oldest stock is sold first. 0