Pipe
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Template:Define The word pipe can refer to:
- a tubular man-made channel, generally round in cross section, in steel or concrete
- for transporting or guiding a fluid substance see plumbing and pipeline transport
- used in construction as column, truss element or space frame
- in mechanical engineering e.g. a bicycle frame
- an exhaust pipe, for channelling waste fumes from an engine or stove
- In cooking: "to pipe" is to extrude semisolid food from a pastry bag. A smaller device using the same principles is the pipette used in chemistry and biology laboratory work.
- certain musical instruments among the wind instruments, specifically woodwinds, characterized as being shaped like a pipe or collection of pipes.
- the flute or reed flute
- the recorder
- a boatswain's pipe, also known as a bosun's whistle
- Instruments often referred to by the plural form "pipes":
- pan pipes
- uilleann pipes
- the bagpipe
- A singer's vocal cords (slang)
- "Piping" as a verb means playing one of these instruments; The Pied Piper of Hamelin is said to have played such an instrument.
- a smoking pipe, for the smoking of tobacco, or certain recreational drugs
- a water pipe, for the smoking of flavoured tobacco or cannabis
- in computing:
- pipe is the name of the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): |
- in the context of Unix operating systems, a pipe signifies that the output of one program feeds directly as input to another program. The Unix shell uses the pipe character (|) to join programs together. See Pipe (computing), Pipe (Unix) and Pipes and filters.
- in internet slang, a pipe refers to a data backbone, or broadband Internet access (e.g., a "fat pipe" refers to a high-bandwidth connection).
- a vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
- a halfpipe is a semi-circular ramp for performing skateboarding tricks; by extension, a similar construction in snow for snowboarding
Pipe can have different meanings when spelled with capitals - see PIPE.
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