Definition of "pipeline" []

• A conduit of pipe, especially one used for the conveyance of water, gas, or petroleum products. (noun)
• A direct channel by which information is privately transmitted. (noun)
• A system through which something is conducted, especially as a means of supply: "Farther down the pipeline are three other approaches to vaccine development” ( Boston Globe). (noun)
• To convey by or as if by a system of pipes. (verb-transitive)
• To lay a system of pipes through. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Well, coming soon in the pipeline is a vast amount more discrete mathematics."
• "Well, in our pipeline is a whole zoo of chart types."
• "As an aside, in the pipeline is another Ron Moore BSG-verse offering."