Pipeline

/ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/ · noun

Meaning

A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
2. A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
3. (figurative) A system or process through which something is conducted.
4. (figurative) A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
5. (figuratively) A continuous, contributing source of benefits, talent, or innovation.
6. (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
7. (computing, transitive) To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.
8. (transitive) To convey by a system of pipes.

Example Sentences

Meronyms: pipe, piping, pipework

An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.

3D images are rendered using the graphics pipeline.

A new version of the software is in the pipeline, but has not been rolled out.

April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/ The gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do.

History education has also been considered as a pipeline that connects learners with 'their roots', thereby imbuing in them an awareness of their identity.

A bracing Department of Justice lawsuit filed last month against Meridian, Miss[issippi] […] argues that the city’s juvenile justice system has operated a school to prison pipeline that shoves students out of school and into the criminal justice system […]

Scottish rail suppliers have told the Government that they can only reach their target of employing 500 apprentices if they are given a clear pipeline of work, rather than having to endure the current stop-go programme.

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Word Forms

• pipelines
• pipelining
• pipelined

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