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title: Glossary · Cloudflare Queues docs
description: Review the definitions for terms used across Cloudflare's Queues documentation.
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Review the definitions for terms used across Cloudflare's Queues documentation.

| Term | Definition |
| - | - |
| consumer | A consumer is the term for a client that is subscribing to or consuming messages from a queue. |
| producer | A producer is the term for a client that is publishing or producing messages on to a queue. |
| queue | A queue is a buffer or list that automatically scales as messages are written to it, and allows a consumer Worker to pull messages from that same queue. |
