pipeline

  1. Noun.  a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc.
  2. Noun.  a channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
  3. Noun.  a system through which something is conducted.
  4. Noun.  (context, surfing) : The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when wave has started closing over.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To convey something by a system of pipes.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through something.
  7. Verb.  (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.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.