pipeline
/ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/
noun
- A long series of connected pipes used to carry oil, gas, water, or other substances over a distance.
- The company is building a new natural gas pipeline to the coast.
- A leak in the water pipeline flooded the street.
- The oil pipeline runs hundreds of miles across the desert.
- A channel or process that supplies something continuously, especially information or products.
- We need to improve our sales pipeline to meet our targets.
- The talent pipeline from the university provides many new engineers each year.
- The company has a strong pipeline of new products ready for launch.
- In computing, a sequence of stages where the output of one stage is the input of the next, often used for processing data or instructions.
- They set up a video processing pipeline to edit the footage automatically.
- The CPU uses a pipeline to execute instructions more efficiently.
- The data pipeline processes millions of records every hour.
verb
- To convey or transport (something) through a pipeline.
- They pipelined the crude oil directly to the refinery.
- The company plans to pipeline natural gas from the north.
- Water is pipelined from the reservoir to the city.
- To supply or channel (something) in a continuous stream.
- The software pipelined data from the sensors to the main server.
- The organization pipelined donations to the disaster relief fund.
- We need to pipeline more candidates into the training program.