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pipelining

pipelining is the present participle and gerund of pipeline.

Meaning of pipeline

Verb

pipeline (third-person singular simple present pipelines, present participle pipelining, simple past and past participle pipelined)

  1. (transitive) To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.
  2. (transitive) To convey by a system of pipes.
  3. (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through.

See all 9 meanings of pipeline

Forms of pipelining

pluralpipelinings

Words formed from pipelining

Questions about pipelining

What is pipelining the present participle and gerund of?
Pipelining is the present participle and gerund of pipeline.

Words near pipelining in the dictionary

  1. pipeline
  2. pipelined
  3. pipeliner
  4. pipeliners
  5. pipelines
  6. pipelining
  7. pipelle
  8. pipelles
  9. Pipels
  10. pipemaker
  11. pipemakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pipelining (page history and authors); pipeline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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