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named pipes

named pipes is the plural of named pipe.

Meaning of named pipe

Noun

named pipe (plural named pipes)

  1. An extension to the anonymous pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.

Questions about named pipes

What is named pipes the plural of?
Named pipes is the plural of named pipe.

Words near named pipes in the dictionary

  1. named parameters
  2. named people
  3. named person
  4. named persons
  5. named pipe
  6. named pipes
  7. named the day
  8. namedness
  9. namedrop
  10. namedropped
  11. namedropper

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