Plumbing
Plumb´ing
| n. | 1. | The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc. |
| 2. | The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building. |
| Noun | 1. |  plumbing - utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewageSynonyms: plumbing system |
| 2. | plumbing - the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) Synonyms: plumbery | |
| 3. | plumbing - measuring the depths of the oceans Synonyms: bathymetry |
| plumbing - (Unix) Term used for shell code, so called because of the
prevalence of "pipelines" that feed the output of one
program to the input of another. Under Unix, user utilities
can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable
collection of pipelines and temporary file grinding
encapsulated in a shell script. This is much less effort
than writing C every time, and the capability is considered
one of Unix's major winning features. A few other operating systems such as IBM's VM/CMS support similar facilities. The tee utility is specifically designed for plumbing. |