Streamline vs Pipeline - What's the difference?
streamline | pipeline |
(physics) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.
(meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
(by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
To modernise.
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 through which something is conducted
* April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
(surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
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.
As nouns the difference between streamline and pipeline
is that streamline is (physics) a line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow while pipeline is pipeline (conduit made of pipes used to convey petroleum or gas).As a verb streamline
is to design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.streamline
English
(wikipedia streamline)Noun
(en noun)See also
* streakline * pathlineVerb
(en-verb)Derived terms
* streamlinerAnagrams
* *pipeline
English
(wikipedia pipeline)Noun
(en noun)- An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.
- 3D images are rendered using the graphics pipeline .
- A new version of the software is in the pipeline , but has not been rolled-out.
- 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.