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pipeborne

pipeborne adjective: transported through a pipe.

Adjective

pipeborne (comparative more pipeborne, superlative most pipeborne)

  1. Transported through a pipe.
    • It indicates the demand for household water where the new water supply (e.g., pipeborne supply) can substitute for another source of water that was previously used (e.g., water vendor), with little significant change in quality of the useful output.1992, Mohan Munasinghe, Water Supply and Environmental Management: Developing World Applications

Forms of pipeborne

comparativemore pipeborne
superlativemost pipeborne

Origin of pipeborne

From pipe + borne.

Questions about pipeborne

What does pipeborne mean?
Pipeborne means transported through a pipe.
What part of speech is pipeborne?
Pipeborne is an adjective.

Words near pipeborne in the dictionary

  1. pipeages
  2. pipebomb
  3. pipebombed
  4. pipebombing
  5. pipebombs
  6. pipeborne
  7. pipebursting
  8. pipebuzone
  9. pipecase
  10. pipecases
  11. pipeclay

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