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 (company), 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