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  • noun computing A linear data structure in which elements may be appended to or removed from either end.

Etymologies

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Shortened from double-ended queue

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  • Libellus vere aureus de optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia

    Chronological List 2010

  • Libellus vere aureus de optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia

    Publication Date List 2010

  • I'm not sure how one would express a circular data structure like an efficient double-ended queue without being able to have more than one reference to anything sweep it into the implementation and have a black box deque type that happens to use a doubly linked list under the hood, hiding the detail from the purely functional world?

    Snell-Pym » Uniqueness Typing 2008

  • Liber, De arcu coelesti, deque colorum apparentium natura, ortu et causis (Prague, 1648).

    OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968

  • Non illorum exhorrescit corpus, non contremescit animus; sed securi et garruli, de Christo Dei filio, qui pro me indigno peccatore passus est, deque ipsius utraque generatione loquuntur; nec saltem quod in luce cæcutiunt, sentiunt

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Fit praelium inter pauca cruentum et memorabile: nobilium hominum virtute de omnibus fortunis, deque gloria adversus immanem feritatem decertante.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • 'Cepimus et tenerae primos aetatis honores, deque viris quondam pars tribus una fui.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • He must have been known for his knowledge of law as well as for his fairness in order to be selected as arbitrator in private cases: 'res quoque priuatas statui sine crimine iudex,/deque mea fassa est pars quoque uicta fide' (_Tr_ II 95-96).

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Durare nequeo in aedibus. ita me probri, stupri, dedecoris a viro argutam meo! ea quae sunt facta infecta ut reddat clamitat. quae neque sunt facta neque ego in me admisi arguit; atque id me susque deque esse habituram putat.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Jesu per Benedictinos institutione, deque libello exercitiorum ejusdem ab Exercitatorio

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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