in the pipeline

pipeline | Business English

pipeline
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpaɪplaɪn/us
NATURAL RESOURCES
a very long large tube, usually underground, used to transport oil, gas, etc. over a long distance:
The Alaska pipeline crosses the wilderness in the northern Yukon.
pipeline company/operatorThe gas pipeline operator warned of possible shortages this winter.
pipeline network/system
pipeline construction/maintenance/operationsRecently we have made progress towards improving pipeline maintenance.
 in the pipeline
a plan, product, etc. that is in the pipeline is being discussed or prepared and will be produced or finished in the future:
The CEO told the media there were no further acquisitions in the pipeline.

Examples of pipeline

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The water pipelines were located in the same trench as the sewage pipes.
In sparsely populated areas, long pipelines with little flow can lead to unstable water pressure.
A piezoelectric swimming microrobot is described, with industrial applications in pipelines and also with medical ones in, for example, blood vessels.
Such sources include land mines as well as chemicals leaking from gas pipelines and chemical storage tanks.
137 such drones could be used to conduct safety checks inside nuclear reactors or could be flown inside gas pipelines.
Section 4 shows how strategies can be used to specify several common parallel paradigms including pipelines, producer/consumer and divide-and-conquer parallelism.
There is strong incentive to do this, for example when the domains correspond to specific industries and the costs of ontology mismatches and consequent broken pipelines can be quantified.
Finally, to take advantage of these two items, we need an effective development environment to enable biologists themselves to develop the workflows and pipelines they need.
In the rural areas, all kinds of housework, cultivation, construction of roads and water pipelines, were undertaken through the involvement of all the households in the village.
They outlined two parallel pipelines for image and sound rendering, and proposed to synthesise sound objects from physical principles in a way similar to motion synthesis.
Now the owners of the gas pipelines had to open up for producers and consumers also to engage in this trade, similar to the network owners in the electricity sector.
An increased risk with longer water distribution pipelines indicates that contamination occurring during distribution from the waterworks to the households may be more important than previously thought.
In this methodology, the plant is described as a directed graph in which the nodes represent most of the equipment in the plant while arcs represent pipelines and valves.
To support pipelines, a low overhead locking/blocking mechanism has been built into the runtime system to avoid two or more processors from reducing the same sub-graph.
Over the years an estimated $5 bn has been invested in the acquisition of exploration and drilling licences, the construction of pipelines, refineries and other essential infrastructure.
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