pipeline
A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
Example
“An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.”
Other meanings
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.”
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.”
Related words
- metapipeline
- multipipeline
- pipeliner
- gas pipeline
- in the pipeline
- continuous delivery pipeline
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pipeline” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.