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First In First Out

Definition: First In First Out

First In First Out

Noun

1. Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Abbreviations & Acronyms: First In First Out

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
FIFOEnglishFirst in first out memoryComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: First In First Out

Synonym: FIFO (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: First In First Out

English words defined with "first in first out": ball, BegincommencegetPitch farthingset about, set out, start, start outTo be beside one's self. (references)
Specialty definitions using "first in first out": ABEL, Accordian effect, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, airplane-cabin attendant, AIRPLANE-FLIGHT ATTENDANT, AMBULANCE ATTENDANT, artesian waterBabes, bar coal cutter, Birth, bords and longworkCabinet Ministers, catch-letter, Catch-word, Children ever born, CHIMNEY SUPERVISOR, BRICK, CHIROPRACTOR ASSISTANT, Chorionic Villi Sampling, Cross, cylinder cutsdatabase normalisation, demand paging, Demon Internet Ltd., Diskectomy, Percutaneous, drop capital, dropped capitalENGRAVER, MACHINE, Exodus, Book ofFeather in Your Cap, Female, first in first out buffer, first in first out memory, flux-gate magnetometerheading-and-bench mining, Horn clause, Hot Dry Rock, hypercubeImminent Death Of The Net Predicted!, INSPECTOR, TOOL, Intel Corporation, interlocking wedge-type capping, isolated zoneJephthahlexicographermain levels, Mark 1, metilmorfina, Micro Channel Architecture, Microsoft Basic, mix-in-place, My Favourite Toy LanguageNorwegian cut, Nut-brown MaidObject Management Group, object-oriented programmingpioneer bench, precision inspector, primary wastewater treatment, profile shooting, Prometheans, pushdown list, pyramid cutReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, REPEAT-PHOTOCOMPOSING-MACHINE OPERATOR, review, ROOSEVELT, RumpelstilzchenSAIL CUTTER, second working, silly ploughing, silly plowing, smoke test, sublevel caving, suffrage, surface-plate inspectorTerms of Sale, TMS 9900, tool-and-die inspector, tool-and-gauge inspector, tooling inspectorUnix conspiracyV.FC, vaxocentrism, VFCYou know you've been hacking too long when, You know you've been hacking too long when.... (references)

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Expressions: First In First Out

Expressions using "first in first out": first in first out buffer first in first out memory. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: First In First Out

Language Translations for "first in first out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

FIFO-lager (FIFO, first in first out memory, pushup storage, pushup store), silolager (FIFO, first in first out memory, pushup storage, pushup store). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

FIFO-geheugen (FIFO, first in first out memory). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

siilo (FIFO, first in first out memory, First-In-First-Out structure, silo), jonomuisti (FIFO, first in first out memory, pushup storage, pushup store). (various references)

   

French

  

tampon FIFO (FIFO buffer, first in first out buffer), système premier entré premier sorti (FIFO, first in first out memory), mémoire-tampon FIFO (FIFO buffer, first in first out buffer), mémoire FIFO (FIFO, first in first out memory), mémoire du type "file d'attente". (various references)

   

German

  

FIFO-Speicher (FIFO, first in first out memory), Silospeicher (FIFO, first in first out memory). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μνήμη πρώτο-μέσα-πρώτο-έξω (FIFO, first in first out memory). (various references)

   

Italian

  

FIFO (FIFO, first in first out memory, First-In-First-Out structure), Primo a entrare-primo a uscire (FIFO, first in first out memory). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irstfay inay irstfay outay

   

Portuguese

  

rés-do-chão (first floor, ground floor, ground-floor, grub). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

memoria FIFO (FIFO, first in first out memory), memoria de primero en entrar/primero en salir (FIFO, first in first out memory). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

FIFO-minne (FIFO, first in first out memory, pushup storage, pushup store), köminne (FIFO, first in first out memory, pushup storage, pushup store). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: First In First Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-i-i-i-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-t-u"

-4 letters: firstfruits, institutors.

-5 letters: institutor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: First In First Out


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 72 73 74      49 6E      46 69 72 73 74      4F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01110010 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001001 01101110 00100000 01000110 01101001 01110010 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#114 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#73 &#110 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#114 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0072 0073 0074      0049 006E      0046 0069 0072 0073 0074      004F 0075 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407584858624380240758485862498786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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