pipe — definition (Water)

Water

A circular conduit constructed of any one of a number of materials that conveys water by gravity or under pressure. A cylindrical conduit or conductor, the wall thickness of which is sufficient to receive a standard pipe thread. See crown, flexible pipe, haunches, invert, rigid pipe, and springline.

Bureau of Reclamation — Bureau of Reclamation Glossary

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Microsoft Exchange 2007

(n) A portion of memory that can be used by one process to pass information along to another. Essentially, a pipe works like its namesake: it connects two processes so that the output of one can be used as the input to the other. (v) To use the output of one Exchange Management Shell command as the input for the next. In code, this is represented by the vertical bar ("|") character. For example, to pipe the output of the Get-Mailbox command to the input of the Format-List command so as to see the detailed output, type Get-Mailbox | Format-List. [Exchange 2007]

Microsoft — MS Exchange 2007 Glossary

Technology› Programming

Java

A linkage between two program components. One component acts as a source of data, and writes into the pipe. A second components acts as a receiver (sink) for the data and reads from the pipe. See PipedInputStream and PipedOutputStream.

David J. Barnes — Object-Oriented Programming with Java

Technology› Programming

Perl

A direct "connection" that carries the output of one "process" to the input of another without an intermediate temporary file. Once the pipe is set up, the two processes in question can read and write as if they were talking to a normal file, with some caveats.

Perl — Perl Glossary