pipeline
IPA: pˈaɪpɫaɪn
noun
- A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc.
- A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
- (figurative) A system or process through which something is conducted.
- (figurative) A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
- (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
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.
- (transitive) To convey by a system of pipes.
- (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through.
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Examples of "pipeline" in Sentences
- Well, in our pipeline is a whole zoo of chart types.
- We're seeing it in what we call our pipeline, as well.
- This pipeline is also paralleled in the prison system. —
- As an aside, in the pipeline is another Ron Moore BSG-verse offering.
- Well, coming soon in the pipeline is a vast amount more discrete mathematics.
- Now we are starting a new project to use model classroom teachers in what we call a pipeline for student teaching.
- If the pipeline is the big deal, the traditional approach is to pay protection money to the strongest tribes along its route, which is usually lots cheaper than “secure and hold” operations.
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