Pipe
Wikimedia disambiguation page
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
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