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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Pipeline A sequence of functional units ("stages") which performs a task in several steps, like an assembly line in a factory. Each functional unit takes inputs and produces outputs which are stored in its output buffer. One stage's output buffer is the next stage's input buffer. This arrangement allows all the stages to work in parallel thus giving greater throughput than if each input had to pass through the whole pipeline before the next input could enter. The costs are greater latency and complexity due to the need to synchronise the stages in some way so that different inputs do not interfere. The pipeline will only work at full efficiency if it can be filled and emptied at the same rate that it can process. Pipelines may be synchronous or asynchronous. A synchronous pipeline has a master clock and each stage must complete its work within one cycle. The minimum clock period is thus determined by the slowest stage. An asynchronous pipeline requires handshaking between stages so that a new output is not written to the interstage buffer before the previous one has been used. Many CPUs are arranged as one or more pipelines, with different stages performing tasks such as fetch instruction, decode instruction, fetch arguments, arithmetic operations, store results. For maximum performance, these rely on a continuous stream of instructions fetched from sequential locations in memory. Pipelining is often combined with instruction prefetch in an attempt to keep the pipeline busy. When a branch is taken, the contents of early stages will contain instructions from locations after the branch which should not be executed. The pipeline then has to be flushed and reloaded. This is known as a pipeline break. (1996-10-13). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PIPE-LINE |
| Specialty definitions using "PIPE-LINE": back pull out pump ♦ pull-out type pump ♦ ratio of openings ♦ surge pressure. (references) |
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Books | |
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| "PIPE-LINE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PIPE-LINE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PIPE-LINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 管" (meatus, Meatuses, pipeline). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | távvezeték (transmission line). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | パール編み (full cup, parentheses, parenthesis, pi, pie, pineapple, pioneer, pioneer spirit, pipe, pipe-organ, piping, purl stitch, tart, tube, vasectomy). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | パイプライン . (various references) | ||||
Korean | 파이"라인 (pipeline). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ipe-linepay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pipeline. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-l-n-p-p" | |
-2 letters: lippen, nipple, penile. | |
-3 letters: lipin, pilei. | |
-4 letters: lien, line, lipe, neep, peel, peen, peep, pein, pele, pile, pili, pine, pipe, plie. | |
-5 letters: eel, lee, lei, lie, lin, lip, nee, nil, nip, pee, pen, pep, pie, pin, pip. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-l-n-p-p" | |
+1 letter: pipelined, pipelines. | |
+4 letters: antiepilepsy, percipiently, slipperiness. | |
+5 letters: antiepileptic, epileptogenic, inappreciable, pentaploidies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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