"Kingman's formula" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: First published by John Kingman in his 1961 paper The single server queue in heavy traffic. Head templates: {{en-prop}} Kingman's formula
  1. (queueing theory) An approximation for the mean waiting time in a G/G/1 queue.

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