Pipe

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Pipe usually refers to:

• Pipe (fluid conveyance), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules
• Piping, the use of pipes in industry
• Smoking pipe

Pipe may also refer to:

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, an instrument used for signalling or to issue commands on a warship

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 "|"
• "PHY Interface for PCI Express" (PIPE), the name of a specification for the PCI Express physical layer

Proper noun

• Pipe, Wisconsin, United States
• PIPE Networks, an Australian company primarily involved in setting up peering exchanges
• Jules Pipe CBE, Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, UK
• Pipes (surname)
• Pipes (Transformers), a fictional character
• Pipe, the Hungarian name for Pipea village, Nadeș Commune, Mureş County, Romania

Other uses

• Pipe (unit) or butt, a cask measurement
• Pipe (casting), a type of metal casting defect
• 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
• Private investment in public equity
• PIPES, a common buffer used in chemistry and biology laboratory work

See also

• Piper (disambiguation)
• PIPE (disambiguation)
• Pipes (disambiguation)
• Pipette, used in chemistry and biology laboratory work
• Pipe Mania, a video game