ˈpipelining, vbl. n.
[f. pipe-line n. + -ing1.]
1. a. The laying of pipelines. b. Transportation by means of pipelines.
| 1959 Pipeline Engin. Oct. p. i, The initiation of this new section is..a further milestone in the ever-expanding industry of pipelining. 1963 Internat. Pipes & Pipelines Dec. 40/2 The pipelining of forest products such as wood chips would appear to be economically feasible. 1969 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 271/2 The scope of pipelining is being expanded to include the transportation of solids in molten form or as slurries or capsules. 1970 Preprints 2nd Ann. Offshore Technol. Conf. I. 379 (heading) Pipelining in 600 feet of water. 1975 North Sea Background Notes (Brit. Petroleum Co.) 31 Pipelining begins with the stringing out of pipe lengths, each approximately four tons in weight, which are unloaded on to temporary sleepers and then welded into a continuous line. |
2. Computers. A form of computer organization in which successive steps of a process are executed in turn by a linear sequence of specialized modules capable of operating concurrently, so that another process can be begun before the previous one is finished.
| 1965 AFIPS Conf. Proc. XXVII. i. 490/1 With the present state-of-the-art in systems organization and technology it appears that pipelining is a powerful approach to a particular variety of large data processing problems. 1972 IEEE Trans. Computers XXI. 886/1 Pipelining can be used to give a 40 percent increase in adder efficiency and a 230 percent increase in multiplier efficiency. 1975 G. Zimmermann in Hartenstein & Zaks Workshop on Microarchitecture of Computer Systems 155/1 The fast multiplication scheme has been extended by a fast pipelining division network for floating point numbers. |