pipeline

See also: Pipeline and pipe-line

English

A pipeline

Etymology

From pipe +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/

Noun

pipeline (plural pipelines)

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 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[1]

     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.

4. (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

Meronyms

• pipe

Hyponyms

• continuous delivery pipeline

Translations

conduit made of pipes

• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 管道 (zh) (guǎndào)

• Dutch: pijpleiding (nl) f
• Finnish: johto (fi), putki (fi), putkisto (fi)
• French: pipeline (fr) m
• German: Pipeline (de) f, Rohrleitung (de) f
• Greek: αγωγός (el) f (agogós)
• Japanese: パイプライン (ja) (paipurain)
• Maori: ngongo kōhinu (for oil and gas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ledning m or f, rørledning m or f

  Nynorsk: røyrleidning m or f

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• Persian: خط لوله (xatt-e-lule), خط لوله (xatt-e-lule)
• Polish: rurociąg (pl) m
• Portuguese: ducto (pt) m, duto (pt) m
• Romanian: pipeline f, conductă (ro) f
• Russian: трубопрово́д (ru) m (truboprovód), нефтепрово́д (ru) m (nefteprovód) (oil), газопрово́д (ru) m (gazoprovód) (gas), водопрово́д (ru) m (vodoprovód) (water)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цевовод m, (gas) плиновод m, (water) водовод m

  Roman: cevovod m, (gas) plinovod (sh) m, (water) vodovod (sh) m

• Spanish: oleoducto (es) m (for oil), tubería (es) f (for water)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can

channel by which information is transmitted

• Finnish: kanava (fi), liukuhihna (fi)
• Greek: σωλήνωση (el) f (solínosi), διοχέτευση (el) f (diochétefsi)
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• Portuguese: pipeline m
• Russian: конве́йер (ru) m (konvéjer)

system through which something is conducted

• Finnish: putki (fi), liukuhihna (fi)
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inside of a breaking wave

• Finnish: kanava (fi)
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See also

• queue
• FIFO

Verb

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

Translations

To convey something by a system of pipes

• Finnish: johtaa putkessa
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To lay a system of pipes through something

• Finnish: rakentaa putkisto
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References

• pipeline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.plin/

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. oil pipeline

Synonyms

• oléoduc

Further reading

• “pipeline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. (computing) pipeline (set of data processing elements connected in series)