pipeline
See also: Pipeline and pipe-line
English
Etymology
From pipe + line.
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.
- (figurative) 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.
- April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville
- 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.
- 2012, Olivier Nyirubugara, Surfing the Past: Digital Learners in the History Class (page 257)
- History education has also been considered as a pipeline that connects learners with 'their roots', thereby imbuing in them an awareness of their identity.
- 2012 November 26, Julianne Hing, “The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline”, in Colorlines:
- 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 […]
- 2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:
- 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.
- (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
Hyponyms
- continuous delivery pipeline
Meronyms
- pipe
Descendants
- → Japanese: パイプライン (paipurain)
- → Korean: 파이프라인 (paipeurain)
Translations
conduit made of pipes
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channel by which information is transmitted
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system through which something is conducted
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inside of a breaking wave
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See also
- queue
- FIFO
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
- (rare, slang, transitive) To connect a tube from ones mouth to ones anus (or the anus of another), in order to force someone to eat feces.
Translations
To convey something by a system of pipes
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To lay a system of pipes through something
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References
- pipeline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English pipeline.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.plin/, /paj.plajn/
Audio (file) Audio (CAN) (file)
Noun
pipeline m (plural pipelines)
- oil pipeline
- Synonym: oléoduc
- (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)
- (computing) pipeline (set of data processing elements connected in series)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English pipeline.
Noun
pipeline n (plural pipeline-uri)
- pipeline
Declension
Declension of pipeline
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pipeline | pipelineul | (niște) pipeline-uri | pipeline-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) pipeline | pipelineului | (unor) pipeline-uri | pipeline-urilor |
vocative | pipelineule | pipeline-urilor |