Pipe(s), PIPE(S) or piping may refer to:

Objects

Pipe (fluid conveyance) A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases ( fluids), slurries, powders and masses of small soli ...

, a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules **

Piping Within industry, piping is a system of pipes used to convey fluids (liquids and gases) from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the efficient transport of fluid. Industrial process piping (and accomp ...

, the use of pipes in industry * Smoking pipe **

Tobacco pipe A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco. It comprises a chamber (the bowl) for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem (shank) emerges, ending in a mouthpiece. Pipes can range from very sim ...

* Half-pipe and quarter pipe, semi-circular ramps for performing skateboarding/snowboarding tricks * Piping (sewing), tubular ornamental fabric sewn around the edge of a garment * ''For the musical instruments'', see

below Below may refer to: *Earth * Ground (disambiguation) * Soil * Floor * Bottom (disambiguation) * Less than *Temperatures below freezing * Hell or underworld People with the surname * Ernst von Below (1863–1955), German World War I general * Fr ...

Music

Pipe (instrument) A pipe is a tubular wind instrument in general, or various specific wind instruments. The word is an onomatopoeia, and comes from the tone which can resemble that of a bird chirping . With just three holes, a pipe's range is obtained by overblow ...

, a traditional perforated wind instrument *

Bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, N ...

, a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds ** Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes *

Organ pipe An organ pipe is a sound-producing element of the pipe organ that resonates at a specific pitch when pressurized air (commonly referred to as ''wind'') is driven through it. Each pipe is tuned to a specific note of the musical scale. A set ...

, one of the tuned resonators that produces the main sound of a pipe organ * Pan pipes, see

Pan flute A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been ...

, an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe * Piped music, or elevator music, a type of background music * "Pipe", by Christie Front Drive from '' Christie Front Drive'', 1994

Computing

Pipeline (Unix) In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. A pipeline is a set of processes chained together by their standard streams, so that the output text of each process ('' s ...

Anonymous pipe In computer science, an anonymous pipe is a simplex FIFO communication channel that may be used for one-way interprocess communication (IPC). An implementation is often integrated into the operating system's file IO subsystem. Typically a paren ...

and named pipe, a one-way communication channel used for inter-process communication * "PHY Interface for PCI Express" (PIPE), the name of a specification for the PCI Express physical layer * Yahoo! Pipes *sspipes.scr, a screensaver for Microsoft Windows * PIPE Networks, an Australian company primarily involved in setting up peering exchanges

Technology

* Pipe (casting), a type of metal-casting defect * Boatswain's pipe, an instrument used for signalling or to issue commands on a warship * PIPES, a common buffer used in chemistry and biology laboratory work *

Pipe (car) Pipe was a Belgian automobile manufacturer founded by the brothers Alfred and Victor Goldschmidt. The company was also known as Compagnie Belge de Construction Automobiles. In 1900 they presented their first car in Brussels under the name Pip ...

, a Belgian automobile manufacturer

Places

Pipe, Wisconsin Pipe, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community in the Town of Calumet in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located approximately east of Lake Winnebago. History On September 25, 1817, United States Army Judge Advocate Samue ...

, United States * ''Pipe'', the Hungarian name for Pipea village,

Nadeș Nadeș ( hu, Szásznádas, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Nadesch) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe ...

Commune, Mureș County, Romania

People

Jules Pipe Julian Benjamin Pipe (born May 1965) is a British politician who currently serves as the Deputy Mayor of London for Planning, Regeneration and Skills. Pipe was the first directly elected mayor of the London Borough of Hackney between his elec ...

CBE, Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, UK *

Pipes (surname) Pipes is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Pipes (born 1947), English writer and artist *Ben Pipes (born 1986), British volleyball player *Cam Pipes (born 1977), Canadian musician * Daniel Pipes (born 1949), Amer ...

Other uses

* Vertical bar, sometimes called "pipe", the character *

Pipe (letter) Dental (or more precisely denti-alveolar) clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia. In English, the ''tut-tut!'' (British spelling, "tutting") or ''ts ...

, the IPA letter for a dental click * Pipe (unit) or butt, a cask measurement for wine barrels * Volcanic pipe, a deep, narrow cone of solidified magma *

PIPE deal A private investment in public equity, often called a PIPE deal, involves the selling of publicly traded common shares or some form of preferred stock or convertible security to private investors. It is an allocation of shares in a public company n ...

or private investment in public equity * Pipes, a slang term for arm muscles *'' The Pipes'', a 1966 Czech film * "Pipes", an episode of ''The Good Doctor''