Pipeline may refer to:

Electronics, computers and computing

Pipeline (computing) In computing, a pipeline, also known as a data pipeline, is a set of data processing elements connected in series, where the output of one element is the input of the next one. The elements of a pipeline are often executed in parallel or in time- ...

, a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on **

Instruction pipelining In computer engineering, instruction pipelining or ILP is a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor. Pipelining attempts to keep every part of the processor busy with some instruction by dividing inco ...

, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor ***

Classic RISC pipeline In the history of computer hardware, some early reduced instruction set computer central processing units (RISC CPUs) used a very similar architectural solution, now called a classic RISC pipeline. Those CPUs were: MIPS, SPARC, Motorola 88000, ...

, a five-stage hardware based computer instruction set **

Pipeline (software) In software engineering, a pipeline consists of a chain of processing elements (processes, threads, coroutines, functions, ''etc.''), arranged so that the output of each element is the input of the next; the name is by analogy to a physical pip ...

, a chain of data-processing processes or other software entities ***

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 ...

, a set of process chained by their ''standard streams'' ***

XML pipeline In software, an XML pipeline is formed when XML (Extensible Markup Language) processes, especially XML transformations and XML validations, are connected. For instance, given two transformations T1 and T2, the two can be connected so that an in ...

, a connection of XML transformations ***

CMS Pipelines CMS Pipelines is a feature of the VM/CMS operating system that allows one to create and use a pipeline. The programs in a pipeline operate on a sequential stream of records. A program writes records that are read by the next program in the pipeli ...

, an improvement on UNIX piping. Allows multiple streams, moves pointers rather than data, is predictable. **

Graphics pipeline In computer graphics, a computer graphics pipeline, rendering pipeline or simply graphics pipeline, is a conceptual model that describes what steps a graphics system needs to perform to render a 3D scene to a 2D screen. Once ...

, the method of rasterization-based rendering as supported by graphics hardware * Pipelining (DSP implementation), a transformation for optimizing digital circuit * Telestream pipeline, a video capture and playout hardware device

Physical infrastructure

Pipeline transport Pipeline transport is the long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas through a system of pipes—a pipeline—typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than of pipeline in 120 countr ...

, a conduit made from pipes connected end-to-end for long-distance fluid or gas transport *

Plastic pipework Plastic pipe is a tubular section, or hollow cylinder, made of plastic. It is 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 sm ...

, for fluid handling *

Milking pipeline A milking pipeline or milk pipeline is a component of a dairy farm animal-milking operation which is used to transfer milk from the animals to a cooling and storage bulk tank. Setup In small dairy farms with less than 100 cows, goats or sheep, ...

, used on a dairy farm to transport fluid milk

Business

* Art pipeline, process of creating and implementing art for a particular project, most commonly associated with the creative process for developing video games. * Sales pipeline, a visualisation of the sales process of a company

Places

* Banzai Pipeline, a surfing spot on the North Shore of Oahu **

Mister Pipeline Mister Pipeline is a title given to masters of the waves at the North Shore North Shore or Northshore may refer to: Geographic features Australia *North Shore (Sydney), a suburban region of Sydney **Electoral district of North Shore **North S ...

, an Oahu surfer title *

Pipeline, Nairobi Pipeline is a slum-like neighbourhood in Embakasi in the city of Nairobi. Located within the larger Eastlands area of Nairobi, it is approximately east of the central business district. It has earned a reputation for its poor infrastructur ...

, a residential neighbourhood in Nairobi *

Tolt Pipeline Trail The Tolt Pipeline Trail is a wide, unpaved equestrian, pedestrian and mountain bike trail in Seattle's Eastside suburbs. It stretches along the Tolt pipeline right-of-way from Bothell, Washington to the Snoqualmie Valley Regional Trail The ...

, an equestrian and biking trail in Redmond, Washington, USA and Canada *

Keystone Pipeline The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and owned by TC Energy and as of 31 March 2020 the Government of Alberta. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alb ...

, a partially operational and proposed pipeline from

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...

to the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United S ...

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one o ...

, a pipeline transporting crude oil across

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...

from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields

In arts and entertainment

Games

* ''Pipeline'' (game), a 1988 computer game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron * Pipeline (board game), winner of Games Magazine's 1992 Game of the Year award

Literature

Pipeline (comics) This is a list of some of the major foes of the Marvel Comics superhero team, the X-Men The X-Men are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, first appearing in ''The X-Men'' #1 by artist/co-plotter ...

, a character from Marvel Comics with the ability to teleport himself and others * '' Pipeline'', a 2017 play written by

Dominique Morisseau Dominique Morisseau (born March 13, 1978) is an American playwright and actress from Detroit, Michigan. She has authored over nine plays, three of which are part of a cycle titled ''The Detroit Project.'' She was a recipient of the MacArthur Fel ...

Music

* Pipeline (instrumental), a 1963 song by the Chantays * Pipeline Music, a record label * "Pipeline", a 1983 song by Depeche Mode from the album ''

Construction Time Again ''Construction Time Again'' is the third studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 22 August 1983 by Mute Records. It was the band's first album to feature Alan Wilder as a member, who wrote the songs "Two Minute ...

'' * "Pipeline", a 1984 song by the Alan Parsons Project from the album ''

Ammonia Avenue ''Ammonia Avenue'' is the seventh studio album by the British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released on 7 February 1984 by Arista Records. The Phil Spector-influenced "Don't Answer Me" was the album's lead single, and reached ...

'' *

BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio Scotland is a Scotland, Scottish radio station, radio network owned and operated by BBC Scotland, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts a wide variety of programmes. It replaced the Scottish BBC Radio 4 opt-out service of the same na ...

, a programme of music on the bagpipes

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Pipeline'' (film), a 2021 South Korean heist film * CNN Pipeline, a streaming video service by CNN

Roller coasters

* Pipeline roller coaster, a

roller coaster A roller coaster, or rollercoaster, is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions. Passengers ride along the track in open cars, and the rides ar ...

model * Pipeline: The Surf Coaster, a roller coaster at

SeaWorld Orlando SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park and marine zoological park, in Orlando, Florida. It is owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. When combined with its neighbor Discovery Cove and Aquatica, it forms SeaWorld Parks and Resorts Orla ...

Orlando Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures r ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, a ...

Other uses

* The Pipeline, a former internet service provider *

School-to-prison pipeline In the United States, the school-to-prison pipeline (SPP), also known as the school-to-prison link, school–prison nexus, or schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track, is the disproportionate tendency of minors and young adults from disadvantaged backgroun ...

, a pattern in the U.S., described by scholars and reform activists, of pushing disadvantaged students out of school and into the criminal justice system * Drug pipeline, the drugs a pharmaceutical company has in development {{Disambiguation