Pipeline may refer to:

Electronics, computers and computing

* Pipeline (computing), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on ** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor *** Classic RISC pipeline, 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), a set of process chained by their ''standard streams'' *** XML pipeline, a connection of XML transformations *** CMS Pipelines, an improvement on UNIX piping. Allows multiple streams, moves pointers rather than data, is predictable. ** Graphics pipeline, 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, a conduit made from pipes connected end-to-end for long-distance fluid or gas transport * Plastic pipework, for fluid handling * Milking pipeline, 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 The Banzai Pipeline, or simply Pipeline or Pipe, is a surf reef break located in Hawaii, off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea on O'ahu's North Shore. A reef break is an area in the ocean where waves start to break once they reach the shallows of a r ...

, 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's Pipeline. It was first given to Butch Van Artsdalen, and is passed on from generation to generation, by consensus. Other holders of the title have included sometime ac ...

, an Oahu surfer title * Pipeline, Nairobi, 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, a partially operational and proposed pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico * Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a pipeline transporting

crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude ...

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

Music

* Pipeline (instrumental), a 1963 song by the Chantays *

Pipeline Music Pipeline Music Inc. is a record label notable for having negotiated the rights to distribute more than 400,000 hours of classical Russian audio and video recordings from the archive of the Russian State Television and Radio Company and dating back t ...

, a record label * "Pipeline", a 1983 song by Depeche Mode from the album '' Construction Time Again'' * "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, 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 The Pipeline Coaster is a roller coaster model where the trains ride between the tracks as opposed to a traditional roller coaster where they ride above them. The concept was first developed by Japanese ride company TOGO, and was known as the Ul ...

, 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 are o ...

model * Pipeline: The Surf Coaster, a roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida

Other uses

* The Pipeline, a former internet service provider * School-to-prison pipeline, 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 A drug pipeline is the set of drug candidates that an individual pharmaceutical company or the entire pharmaceutical industry collectively has under discovery or development at any given point in time. The drug pipeline is also sometimes restricted ...

, the drugs a pharmaceutical company has in development {{Disambiguation