# Pipeline (disambiguation)

Pipeline is a system for the long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas.
It may also refer to:

## Electronics, computers and computing

* Pipeline (computing), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on
** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor
*** Classic RISC pipeline, a five-stage hardware based computer instruction set
** Pipeline (software), a chain of data-processing processes or other software entities
*** Pipeline (Unix), a set of process chained by their standard streams
*** XML pipeline, a connection of XML transformations
*** CMS Pipelines, an improvement on UNIX piping. Allows multiple streams, moves pointers rather than data, is predictable.
** Graphics pipeline, the method of rasterization-based rendering as supported by graphics hardware
* Pipelining (DSP implementation), a transformation for optimizing digital circuit
* Telestream pipeline, a video capture and playout hardware device

## Physical infrastructure

* Pipeline transport, a conduit made from pipes connected end-to-end for long-distance fluid or gas transport
* A line of Pipe (fluid conveyance)
* Piping in a line
* Plastic pipework, for fluid handling
* Milking pipeline, used on a dairy farm to transport fluid milk

## Business

* Art pipeline, process of creating and implementing art for a particular project, most commonly associated with the creative process for developing video games.
* Sales pipeline, a visualisation of the sales process of a company

## Places

* Banzai Pipeline, a surfing spot on the North Shore of Oahu
** Mister Pipeline, an Oahu surfer title
* Embakasi Pipeline, a neighbourhood in Nairobi
* Tolt Pipeline Trail, an equestrian and biking trail in Redmond, Washington, USA and Canada
* Keystone Pipeline, a partially operational and proposed pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico
* Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a pipeline transporting crude oil across Alaska from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields

## In arts and entertainment
### Games

* Pipeline (game), a 1988 computer game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron
* Pipeline (board game), winner of Games Magazine's 1992 Game of the Year award

### Literature

* Pipeline (comics), a character from Marvel Comics with the ability to teleport himself and others
* Pipeline (play), a 2017 play written by Dominique Morisseau

### Music

* "Pipeline" (instrumental), a 1963 song by the Chantays
* Pipeline Music, a record label
* "Pipeline", a 1983 song by Depeche Mode from the album Construction Time Again
* "Pipeline", a 1984 song by the Alan Parsons Project from the album Ammonia Avenue
* BBC Radio Scotland, a programme of music on the bagpipes

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Pipeline (film), a 2021 South Korean heist film
* CNN Pipeline, a streaming video service by CNN

## Roller coasters

* Pipeline roller coaster, a roller coaster model
* Pipeline: The Surf Coaster, a roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida

## Other uses

* The Pipeline, a former internet service provider
* Alt-right pipeline, a proposed conceptual model for the process of far-right radicalization on social media
* Beep line, an improvised telephone chat line hosted over busy signals
* Drug pipeline, the drugs a pharmaceutical company has in development
* School-to-prison pipeline, a pattern in the U.S., described by scholars and reform activists, of pushing disadvantaged students out of school and into the criminal justice system