pipeline
pipeline Lexical Profile
pipeline Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A long underground or overland pipe used for conveying oil, gas, water, or other fluids over great distances.
"Engineers inspected the transcontinental pipeline to ensure there were no pressure leaks."
A channel or system through which information, goods, candidates, or projects pass from one stage to another, especially when in active development.
"The pharmaceutical company currently has three promising vaccines in the development pipeline."
In computing, a sequence of data-processing stages or instructions arranged so that the output of each element serves directly as the input to the next.
"The data engineering team automated the analytics pipeline to process customer logs in real time."
• verb
To process or execute a sequence of operations or computing instructions concurrently so that new tasks begin before previous ones have finished.
"Modern microprocessors pipeline instructions to maximize execution speed during complex calculations."
To convey or transport fluids, gas, or materials through a long-distance system of pipes.
"The utility company plans to pipeline desalinated water from the coast to inland agricultural valleys."
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the mid-19th century as a compound of 'pipe' and 'line', originally referring to long-distance conduits constructed during the early American petroleum boom in Pennsylvania.