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Pipeline vs Workflow - What's the difference?

pipeline | workflow |

As nouns the difference between pipeline and workflow

is that pipeline is a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc while workflow is the rate at which a flow of work takes place.

As a verb pipeline

is to convey something by a system of pipes.

pipeline

English

(wikipedia 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.

    • workflow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rate at which a flow of work takes place
  • (business) A process and/or procedure in which tasks are completed. It may be defined with a flowchart to define actors, actions, results, decisions, and action paths.