pipeline
English

A pipeline
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/
Noun
pipeline (plural pipelines)
- A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc.
- An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.
- A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
- 3D images are rendered using the graphics pipeline.
- A system or process through which something is conducted.
- A new version of the software is in the pipeline, but has not been rolled-out.
- (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
Meronyms
Hyponyms
- continuous delivery pipeline
Translations
conduit made of pipes
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channel by which information is transmitted
system through which something is conducted
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Verb
pipeline (third-person singular simple present pipelines, present participle pipelining, simple past and past participle pipelined)
- (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.
- (transitive) To convey something by a system of pipes
- (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through something
Translations
French
Etymology
From English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.plin/
Synonyms
Further reading
- “pipeline” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
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