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Pipeline

/ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/

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

📖 Definitions of "Pipeline"

noun

1
A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc.
"An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea."
2
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."
3
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."
4
The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

verb

1
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
To convey something by a system of pipes
3
To lay a system of pipes through something

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