Pipe

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Pipe may refer to:

• Pipe (material), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules
• 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

In 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, 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

In computing:

• Pipeline (computing), a set of data processing elements connected in series
  • Pipeline (software), a chain of processes or other data processing entities
• Pipe (character) or vertical bar, the ASCII character "|"
• Pipe (Unix), a set of processes chained by their standard streams

As proper nouns:

• Pipe, Wisconsin, USA
• Jules Pipe CBE, Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, UK
• Pipes (surname)
• Pipes (Transformers), a fictional character
• PIPE Networks

In 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)

See also

• Piper (disambiguation)
• Piping, the use of pipes in industry
• Pipette, used in chemistry and biology laboratory work

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