Pipe

Pipe(s) or PIPE(S) may refer to:

Common uses

Places

  • Pipe, Wisconsin, United States
  • Pipe, the Hungarian name for Pipea village, Nadeș Commune, Mureș County, Romania

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

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
    • Uilleann pipes, a unique form of bagpipes originating in Ireland
  • 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

Other uses

Brands and enterprises

  • Pipe (car), a Belgian automobile manufacturer
  • PIPE Networks, an Australian company primarily involved in setting up peering exchanges

Technology

  • Boatswain's pipe, an instrument used for signalling or to issue commands on a warship
  • 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
  • Vertical bar, sometimes called "pipe", the character |, because of its use for the computing pipeline

Other uses

See also

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