pipeline Noun
( en noun)
a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc
- An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.
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 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 [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
- 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.
(surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
Meronyms
* pipe
See also
* queue
* FIFO
Verb
(pipelin)
To convey something by a system of pipes
To lay a system of pipes through something
(computing) 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.
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method English
Noun
( en noun)
A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
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, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method , and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
, title= An Acoustic Arms Race
, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
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A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
(slang) Marijuana.
Derived terms
(A process by which a task is completed)
* comparative method
* historical method
* methodical
* methodology
* scholarly method
* scientific method
* Socratic method
* philosophical method
* convenience method
* virtual method
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