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deque en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /dɛk/

Etymology

Shortened from double-ended queue.

Meanings

  1. A linear data structure in which elements may be appended to or removed from either end.
    • This algorithm is difficult to implement with a standard queue, but with a deque it's easy.
    • As with the stack and queue, the Standard Template Library provides an implementation of a deque. 2011, Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, David M. Mount, Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 218:

Forms

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deques Number=Plur lexicographic
dequeue alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

queue · stack · list