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  2. Bottleneck (production) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a short-term bottleneck would be a skilled employee taking a few days off. Long-term bottlenecks occur all the time and can cumulatively significantly slow down production. An example of a long-term bottleneck is when a machine is not efficient enough and as a result has a long queue. [2]

  3. Line stander - Wikipedia

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    In Russian, the word ocherednik (from the word очередь, "queue") has long referred to a person who is listed in some formal queue. In modern Russia professional ocheredniks call themselves by the Spanish term "tramitador" ( трамитадор ), which (in Spanish) refers to a person who pushes the paperwork through a bureaucratic ...

  4. Queue area - Wikipedia

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    Such a group of people is known as a queue (British usage) or line (American usage), and the people are said to be waiting or standing in a queue or in line, respectively. (In the New York City area, the phrase on line is often used in place of in line.) [1] Occasionally, both the British and American terms are combined to form the term "queue ...

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    different or interesting, exceptional; synonym for cool (short for "radical") [43] [56] [57] railroad tramway (obsolete) (v.) to coerce to convict with undue haste or with insufficient evidence the general term for the system of mass transit using trains running on rails: see usage of the terms railroad and railway (v.) to work on the railroad

  6. Queueing theory - Wikipedia

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    A queue or queueing node can be thought of as nearly a black box. Jobs (also called customers or requests, depending on the field) arrive to the queue, possibly wait some time, take some time being processed, and then depart from the queue. A black box. Jobs arrive to, and depart from, the queue.

  7. Queue (abstract data type) - Wikipedia

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    Queues may be implemented as a separate data type, or maybe considered a special case of a double-ended queue (deque) and not implemented separately. For example, Perl and Ruby allow pushing and popping an array from both ends, so one can use push and shift functions to enqueue and dequeue a list (or, in reverse, one can use unshift and pop ...

  8. Queue - Wikipedia

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    Queue (/ k j uː /; French pronunciation:) may refer to: Queue area , or queue, a line or area where people wait for goods or services Arts, entertainment, and media

  9. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    long card A card left in one's hand after all opponents are exhausted of that suit. [75] Similarly, long cards are the dregs of a suit which has been led several times and exhausted in the hands of other players. [69] long suit. A suit containing more than four cards e.g. at Whist [69] The suit with the most cards in a player's hand. [75]