FIFO Definition

fīfō
noun
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.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
abbreviation
(accounting, operations, computing) First In First Out.
Wiktionary
Fly-in fly-out.
Wiktionary

FIFO Sentence Examples

  • First the program creates a FIFO with read-write permissions using the function mkfifo.

  • The same program where we previously used a pipe can be modified and implemented using a FIFO.

  • Are we suppose to read the newsgroup LILO instead of FIFO?

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