Cue

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Cue or CUE may refer to:

Contents 1 Places and objects 2 Event markers 3 Other uses 4 See also

[edit] Places and objects

• Cue, Western Australia, a gold mining town
• CUE Bus (City-University-Energysaver), the local bus system operated by the city of Fairfax, Virginia, United States
• The cue stick (or sometimes the cue ball) in billiard-type games

[edit] Event markers

• Sensory cues in perception (experimental psychology)
• Cue (theatrical), the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time, in theatre or film
• Cue (lighting and sound), the electronic rendering of the specific action to be carried out inside an automated lighting or sound system
• Cue (show control), the electronic rendering of the specific action(s) to be carried out at a specific time by a show control system
• Voice cue in dance, words or sounds that help match rhythmic patterns of steps with the music
• Cue mark used in motion picture film to signal projectionists of reel changes
• Cueing, a technique used by Disc Jockeys where DJs once "cued" 45 and 33RPM records to the first sound by hand-turning the record forward and backward on a felt-faced turntable. This technique has been replaced by instant start digital devices. Similar in sound to "scratching" used in hip-hop and rap music.
• Cue, a vocal message given by a group fitness instructor to inform participants of upcoming sequences, such as a change in stretching direction, etc.

[edit] Other uses

• "Cue" (among other spellings), a spelled-out name for the letter Q in the English alphabet
• Cue bid, a type of bid in the card game contract bridge
• Cue sheet (computing), a file format using the ".cue" filename extension for specifying the layout of CD tracks
• Cue, a post-rock band from Austin

[edit] See also

• Que
• Queue