pipeline

From pipe +‎ line.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/

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. (figurative) 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

     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.

   • 2012, Olivier Nyirubugara, Surfing the Past: Digital Learners in the History Class (page 257)

     History education has also been considered as a pipeline that connects learners with 'their roots', thereby imbuing in them an awareness of their identity.

   • 2012 November 26, Julianne Hing, “The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline”, in Colorlines‎:

     A bracing Department of Justice lawsuit filed last month against Meridian, Miss[issippi] […] argues that the city’s juvenile justice system has operated a school to prison pipeline that shoves students out of school and into the criminal justice system […]

   • 2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:

     Scottish rail suppliers have told the Government that they can only reach their target of employing 500 apprentices if they are given a clear pipeline of work, rather than having to endure the current stop-go programme.

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

• continuous delivery pipeline

• pipe

• → Japanese: パイプライン (paipurain)
• → Korean: 파이프라인 (paipeurain)

• queue
• FIFO

pipeline (third-person singular simple present pipelines, present participle pipelining, simple past and past participle pipelined)

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
4. (rare, slang, transitive) To connect a tube from ones mouth to ones anus (or the anus of another), in order to force someone to eat feces.

• pipeline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English pipeline.

• IPA^(key): /pi.plin/, /paj.plajn/

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pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. oil pipeline

   Synonym: oléoduc

2. (computing) pipeline

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

Unadapted borrowing from English pipeline.

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

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

Unadapted borrowing from English pipeline.

pipeline n (plural pipeline-uri)

1. pipeline