pipeline

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English

Etymology

From pipe +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/

Noun

pipeline (plural pipelines)

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.
   • April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville[1]

     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.
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.

Meronyms

• pipe

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: パイプライン (paipurain)
• → Korean: 파이프라인 (paipeurain)

Translations

See also

• queue
• FIFO

Verb

pipeline (third-person singular simple present pipelines, present participle pipelining, simple past and past participle pipelined)

1. (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.
2. (transitive) To convey by a system of pipes.
3. (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through.

Translations

References

• pipeline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English pipeline.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.plin/, /paj.plajn/

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. oil pipeline

   Synonym: oléoduc

2. (computing) pipeline

Further reading

• “pipeline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pipeline.

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. (computing) pipeline (set of data processing elements connected in series)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pipeline.

Noun

pipeline n (plural pipeline-uri)

1. pipeline

Declension