队列，又称为伫列（queue），是先进先出（FIFO, First-In-First-Out）的线性表。在具体应用中通常用链表或者数组来实现。队列只允许在后端（称为rear）进行插入操作，在前端（称为front）进行删除操作。

队列的操作方式和堆栈类似，唯一的区别在于队列只允许新数据在后端进行添加。

单链队列使用链表作为基本数据结果，所以不存在伪溢出的问题，队列长度也没有限制。但插入和读取的时间代价较高

循环队列可以更简单防止伪溢出的发生，但队列大小是固定的。

In computer science, a queue (/ˈkjuː/ KEW) is a particular kind of abstract data type or collection in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the principal (or only) operations on the collection are the addition of entities to the rear terminal position, known as enqueue, and removal of entities from the front terminal position, known as dequeue. This makes the queue a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) data structure. In a FIFO data structure, the first element added to the queue will be the first one to be removed. This is equivalent to the requirement that once a new element is added, all elements that were added before have to be removed before the new element can be removed. Often a peek or front operation is also entered, returning the value of the front element without dequeuing it. A queue is an example of a linear data structure, or more abstractly a sequential collection.