Pipe Explained

Pipe(s), PIPE(S) or piping may refer to:

Objects

• Pipe (fluid conveyance), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rules
  • Piping, the use of pipes in industry
• Smoking pipe
  • Tobacco pipe
• Half-pipe and quarter pipe, semi-circular ramps for performing skateboarding/snowboarding tricks
• Piping (sewing), tubular ornamental fabric sewn around the edge of a garment
• For the musical instruments, see below

Music

• Pipe (instrument), a traditional perforated wind instrument
• Bagpipe, a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds
  • Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes
• Organ pipe, one of the tuned resonators that produces the main sound of a pipe organ
• Pan pipes, see Pan flute, an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe
• Piped music, or elevator music, a type of background music
• "Pipe", by Christie Front Drive from Christie Front Drive, 1994

Computing

• Pipeline (Unix)
• Anonymous pipe and named pipe, a one-way communication channel used for inter-process communication
• "PHY Interface for PCI Express" (PIPE), the name of a specification for the PCI Express physical layer
• Yahoo! Pipes
• sspipes.scr, a screensaver for Microsoft Windows
• PIPE Networks, an Australian company primarily involved in setting up peering exchanges

Technology

• Pipe (casting), a type of metal-casting defect
• Boatswain's pipe, an instrument used for signalling or to issue commands on a warship
• PIPES, a common buffer used in chemistry and biology laboratory work
• Pipe (car), a Belgian automobile manufacturer

Places

• Pipe, Wisconsin, United States
• Pipe, the Hungarian name for Pipea village, Nadeș Commune, Mureș County, Romania

People

• Jules Pipe CBE, Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, UK
• Pipes (surname)

Other uses

• Vertical bar, sometimes called "pipe", the character
• Pipe (letter), the IPA letter for a dental click
• Pipe (unit) or butt, a cask measurement for wine barrels
• Volcanic pipe, a deep, narrow cone of solidified magma
• PIPE deal or private investment in public equity
• Pipes, a slang term for arm muscles
• The Pipes, a 1966 Czech film
• "Pipes", an episode of The Good Doctor
• Monotropa uniflora, a plant also known as ghost pipe or Indian pipe

See also

• Pipeline (disambiguation)
• Piper (disambiguation)
• Pipette, used in chemistry and biology laboratory work
• Piping bags or pastry bags, in cooking, are used to pipe semi-solid foods onto other foods (e.g., icing on a cake)
• Postpipe, archaeological remains of a timber in a posthole