Pipe
Appearance
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Pipe may refer to:
- Pipe (fluid conveyance), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules
- Piping, the use of pipes in industry
- Smoking pipe
- Pipe (unit) or butt, a cask measurement
- Pipe (casting), a type of metal casting defect
- PIPES, a common buffer used in chemistry and biology laboratory work
- PIPE deal or private investment in public equity
- Boatswain's pipe, an official announcement made on a ship's internal broadcast system
Music
- Pipe (instrument), a traditional perforated wind instrument
- Bagpipe, a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds
- Uilleann pipes, a unique form of bagpipes originating in Ireland
- Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes
- Pan pipes, see Pan flute, an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe
- Organ pipe, one of the tuned resonators that produces the main sound of a pipe organ
- Boatswain's pipe, also known as a bosun's whistle
Computing
- Pipeline (computing), a set of data processing elements connected in series
- Pipeline (software), a chain of processes or other data processing entities
- Pipeline (Unix), a set of processes chained by their standard streams
- Anonymous pipe and named pipe, a one-way communication channel used for inter-process communication
- Vertical bar, sometimes called "pipe", the ASCII character "
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" - "PHY Interface for PCI Express" (PIPE), the name of a specification for the PCI Express physical layer
Proper noun
- Pipe, Wisconsin, United States
- Jules Pipe CBE, Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, UK
- Pipes (surname)
- Pipes (Transformers), a fictional character
- PIPE Networks, an Australian company, based in Brisbane, Queensland, primarily involved in setting up peering exchanges
- Pipe, the Hungarian name for Pipea village, Nadeș Commune, Mureş County, Romania
Other uses
- Volcanic pipe, a deep, narrow cone of solidified magma
- Postpipe, archaeological remains of a timber in a posthole
- 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
- Piping bags are used to pipe semi-solid foods onto other foods (e.g. icing on a cake)
- Pipe (car), a Belgian automobile manufacturer
- The Pipe, documentary film
See also
- Piper (disambiguation)
- Pipette, used in chemistry and biology laboratory work
- Pipe Mania, a video game
- Pipes (disambiguation)