PIPELINE

Pipeline

In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is the original software pipeline: a set of processes chained by their standard streams, so that the output of each process feeds directly as input to the next one. Each connection is implemented by an anonymous pipe. Filter programs are often used in this configuration.

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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 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 wave has started closing over.

Verb

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