PIPE

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'Pipe' may refer to:

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Physical sciences

Video games

Computer science

Music

Finance

Location

Other uses

See also

Physical sciences

A channel for carrying fluids:

★ Water pipe, for transporting water

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

★ Tubing (material), a flexible alternative to pipe
The various uses of pipes:

★ Piping, the use of pipes in industry

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★ Penetrant, in firestopping

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★ Penstock, in hydroelectic power generation

★ Pipeline transport, for many forms of long-distance fluid transport

★ Plumbing, residential or commercial pipe systems for water or sewage

★ Irrigation, the use of pipes to provide water to plants

★ Plastic pressure pipe systems, for use in industrial fluid handling

★ British standard pipe thread
A channel for carrying fumes:

★ Exhaust pipe, used to channel waste fumes from an engine or stove

★ Pipe smoking

★ Smoking pipe (tobacco)

★ Smoking pipe (non-tobacco)

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★ Crackpipe

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★ Bong or hookah, both sometimes referred to as water pipes, the former for cannabis, the latter for tobacco

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★ Gravity bong

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★ Chalice (pipe) a type of water pipe used largely by the Rastafari movement
A pipe-shaped structure:

★ Pipe (geomorphology), an underground drainage channel

★ 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

★ ''Pipe'', or butt, a cask measurement

Video games

★ Warp Pipe, a method of transportation in the Mario series.

Computer science

★ ''Pipe'', ''pipe character'' or vertical bar, the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary), character '|'

★ Pipeline (Unix), a set of processes chained by their standard streams

★ Pipeline (software), a chain of processes or other data processing entities

★ Named pipe, a method of inter-process communication

★ Anonymous pipe, a one-way communication channel

★ Yahoo Pipes, a web service and programming interface to aggregate data feeds

★ Physical Interface for PCI Express (PIPE)

Music

★ Pipe (instrument), one of several types of traditional perforated wind instruments

★ Bagpipe, a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds

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★ Uilleann pipes, a unique form of bagpipes originating in Ireland

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★ Pipes and drums, or pipe bands comprised 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

★ Pitchpipe, a small device used to provide a pitch reference for musicians

★ Boatswain's pipe, also known as a bosun's whistle

★ ''Pipe'', informal term for the flute or recorder

Finance

★ Private Investment in Public Equity transactions

Location

★ Pipe, Wisconsin

Other uses

★ Piping, the action of dispensing frosting with pastry bags.

★ Piping (sewing), a cord or string covered in fabric that is used for embellishment

★ Pipe (car), a Belgian car brand

★ Pipe bomb, a form of improvised explosive device

★ Pipes (Transformers), a fictional character

★ Pipes (surname) (disambiguation)

See also

★ PIPE

★ PIPES, a common buffer used in chemistry and biology laboratory work

★ Piper (disambiguation)

★ Pipette, used in chemistry and biology laboratory work