Cue or CUE may refer to:

Event markers

Sensory cue In perceptual psychology, a sensory cue is a statistic or signal that can be extracted from the Sense, sensory input by a perceiver, that indicates the state of some property of the world that the perceiver is interested in perceiving. A ''cue'' ...

, in perception (experimental psychology) ** Cueing (medicine), rehabilitation techniques for Parkinson's disease patients to improve walking *

Cue (theatrical) A theatrical cue is the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time. It is generally associated with theatre and the film industry. They can be necessary for a lighting change or effect, a sound effect, or some sort of stage or ...

, the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time, in theatre or film *Cue (

show control Show control is the use of automation technology to link together and operate multiple entertainment control systems in a coordinated manner. It is distinguished from an entertainment control system, which is specific to a single theatrical depar ...

), 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, in motion picture film to signal projectionists of reel changes *Cue, a vocal message given by a group fitness instructor to inform participants of upcoming sequences, such as a change in stretching direction

Music and audio

* Cue (band), a Swedish musical group *

Cue tone A cue tone is a message consisting of audio tones, used to prompt an action. In broadcast networks, a DTMF Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signaling is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines ...

, a message consisting of audio tones, used to prompt an action. *

Cue (audio) To cue audio is to determine the desired initial playback point in a piece of recorded music. It is a technique often used in radio broadcasting and DJing A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music ...

, to determine the desired initial playback point in a piece of recorded music *

Cue sheet (computing) A cue sheet, or cue file, is a metadata file which describes how the track (CD), tracks of a CD or DVD are laid out. Cue sheets are stored as plain text files and commonly have a filename extension. CDRWIN first introduced cue sheets, which are ...

, a metadata file that describes how the tracks of an audio track are laid out *

Source cue Diegetic music, also called source music, is music that is part of the fictional world portrayed in a piece of narrative media (such as a film, show, play, or video game) and is thus knowingly performed and/or heard by the characters. This is in ...

, music that emanates from an element visible within a theatrical or movie scene, like a piano, jukebox or car radio *

Musical cue In musical notation, a cue note is or cue notes are indications informing players, "of important passages being played by other instruments, such as an entrance after a long period of rest."McGrain, Mark (1990). ''Music Notation'', p.183. Hal ...

, on sheet music helps ensemble musicians to coordinate their playing. It may also refer to a musical trigger for a theatrical cue

People

* Tom Cue (c. 1850 – 1920), gold prospector in Western Australia

Places

Cue, Western Australia Cue is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia, located 620 km north-east of Perth. At the 2016 census, Cue had a population of 178. Cue is administered through the Cue Shire Council, which has its chambers in the histori ...

, a gold mining town * Shire of Cue, Western Australia *, a village in

Llanes Llanes (the ''Concejo de Llanes'', ''Conceyu de Llanes'' in Asturian language) is a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain. Stretching for about 30 km along the coast at the extreme east of the province, Llanes is bound ...

, Asturias, Spain

Organizations

Catholic University in Erbil The Catholic University in Erbil (CUE) () is a private non-profit institution of higher education and research located in the Erbil suburb of Ankawa, Kurdistan Region, Iraq It was founded in December 2015 by the Archbishop Bashar Warda of the ...

, Iraq *

Chinju National University of Education Chinju (Jinju) National University of Education () is one of several national universities of education in South Korea. It provides training to many planning on careers in the country's public education system. The campus is located in Jinju City ...

, South Korea *

Concordia University of Edmonton Concordia University of Edmonton, is a publicly funded independent academic institution in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; accredited under the Alberta ''Post-secondary Learning Act''. Concordia offers arts, science, and management undergraduate degre ...

, Canada * Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare, United States * Cracow University of Economics, Poland

Other uses

Cue (clothing) Cue is a clothing store that was established in 1968. Its first store opened in the Strand Arcade, Sydney, Australia. Cue predominantly sells modern fashion from London and exclusive prints. History Cue was opened in 1968 and is still wholly ...

, an Australian clothing store chain * ''Cue'' (magazine), a former weekly magazine covering entertainment in New York City *

Cue (search engine) Cue (formerly known as Greplin) was a website and app co-founded by Daniel Gross, Shai Magzimof, and Robby Walker that pulled information from online accounts to present an overview of a user's day. Company info Cue operated by linking various u ...

, a defunct website and app * ''Cue!'' (video game), Japanese mobile game *

Cue stick A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the . Cues are tapered stic ...

, in billiard-type games *

Cue bid In contract bridge, a cue bid (also, cuebid or cue-bid) is either a bid of the opponents' suit, or "slam seeking": a slam-investigating bid made during an auction's later rounds that shows control of a suit. Traditionally a cue bid is "slam seeki ...

, a type of bid in the card game contract bridge *"Cue" (among other spellings), a spelled-out name for the letter '' Q'' in the English alphabet *" .cue", used in the filename of cue sheets, descriptor files for specifying the layout of CD or DVD tracks *

Commercially useful enzymes Commercially useful enzymes (CUEs) are enzymes with applications in various industries. Microbial enzymes are widely utilized as biocatalysts in fields such as biotechnology, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals. Metagenomic data Data ( , ) are ...

CUE Bus CUE Bus (City. University. Everyone., formerly City-University-Energysaver) is a bus service operated by the City of Fairfax, Virginia, and is completely separate from the Fairfax Connector bus service run by Fairfax County. In , the system had ...

(City. University. Everyone.), the local bus system operated by the city of Fairfax, Virginia, United States *The

circular unitary ensemble In the theory of random matrices, the circular ensembles are measures on spaces of unitary matrices introduced by Freeman Dyson as modifications of the Gaussian matrix ensembles. The three main examples are the circular orthogonal ensemble (COE) ...

, in mathematics *'' Cue Ball Cat'', the 54th American ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, released in 1950 * Gabino Cué Monteagudo (born 1966), Mexican politician *

Commonwealth United Entertainment Commonwealth United Entertainment (generally referred to as Commonwealth United; abbreviated as CUE), formerly known as Television Enterprises Corporation (abbreviated as TEC), was an American film & TV production and distribution company active ...