dispatchqueue
nounUK /dɪˈspætʃ kjuː/
US /dɪˈspætʃ kjuː/
A dispatch queue is a line where a computer keeps jobs and does them one at a time.
The app adds each download to a dispatch queue so they finish in order.
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2. In Apple's Grand Central Dispatch, a dispatch queue is a system object that runs submitted blocks of code in order or in parallel.
She submitted the image-resizing block to a background dispatch queue.
3. A general waiting line where items are held until they can be handled.
Support tickets sit in a dispatch queue until an agent picks them up.
4. A data structure in which tasks are added at one end and removed for execution from the other.
The dispatcher pulled the next message from the dispatch queue.