pipeline

Forms

1.A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
- An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.
2.A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
3.A system or process through which something is conducted.
- A new version of the software is in the pipeline, but has not been rolled out.
- History education has also been considered as a pipeline that connects learners with 'their roots', thereby imbuing in them an awareness of their identity.
- Scottish rail suppliers have told the Government that they can only reach their target of employing 500 apprentices if they are given a clear pipeline of work, rather than having to endure the current stop-go programme.
4.A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
- Many who grew up in foster homes in the county have fallen victim to the foster-care-to-homelessness pipeline.
- I recently had a peer reviewer demand that I refer to the so-called “Fortnite to alt-right pipeline” as though games automatically turn players into right-wing extremists.

1.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.
2.To convey by a system of pipes.
3.To lay a system of pipes through.