Pipe

The word pipe can refer to:

The basic cylindrical "pipe" shape

a tubular man-made channel, generally round in cross section, for transporting or guiding a fluid substance.
- See plumbing and pipeline transport

certain musical instruments among the wind instruments, specifically woodwinds, characterized as being shaped like a pipe or collection of pipes.
- the flute or reed flute
- the recorder
- a boatswain's pipe, also known as a bosun's whistle
- Instruments often referred to by the plural form "pipes":
  - pan pipes
  - the bagpipe
  - A singer's vocal cords (slang)
"Piping" as a verb means playing one of these instruments; The Pied Piper of Hamelin is said to have played such an instrument.

in computing:
- pipe is the name of the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): |
- in the context of Unix operating systems, a pipe signifies that the output of one program feeds directly as input to another program. The Unix shell uses the pipe character (|) to join programs together. See Pipe (computing), Pipe (Unix) and Pipes and filters.
- in internet slang, a pipe refers to a data backbone, or broadband Internet access (e.g., a "fat pipe" refers to a high-bandwidth connection).

a vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia

a halfpipe is a semi-circular ramp for performing skateboarding tricks; by extension, a similar construction in snow for snowboarding

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