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
- The pipeline was irregularly short.
- The diameter of the pipeline is over a meter.
- A pipeline exploded with a burst of 3 kilotons.
- The capacity of the pipeline was doubled in 1994.
- The operation of the pipeline was commenced in 1988.
- On the pipeline itself, thievery was a major problem.
- The pipeline landfall is from the beach to the north.
- Also transacting the property is a natural gas pipeline.
- The pipeline was, at the time, the longest in the World.
- Reversal of the procedure will permit reassembly of the pipeline.