pipeline

Meanings

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).
• A system or process through which something is conducted.
• The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

Verb

• 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.
• To convey something by a system of pipes
• To lay a system of pipes through something
• To connect a tube from ones mouth to ones anus (or the anus of another), in order to force someone to eat feces.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• continuous delivery pipeline

Origin

• From pipe + line.