Princeton's WordNet

1. plumbing, plumbing system(noun)

   utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage

2. plumbing, plumbery(noun)

   the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building)

3. bathymetry, plumbing(noun)

   measuring the depths of the oceans

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. plumbing(noun)ˈplʌm ɪŋ

   the pipes that carry water around a building

   a house with new plumbing

Wiktionary

1. plumbing(Noun)

   The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building.

2. plumbing(Noun)

   The trade or occupation of a plumber.

3. plumbing(Noun)

   A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.

   My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.

4. plumbing(Noun)

   A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.

Webster Dictionary

1. Plumbing(u)

   of Plumb

2. Plumbing(noun)

   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

3. Plumbing(noun)

   the lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. 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 temp-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 OSs such as IBM's VM/CMS support similar facilities. Esp.: used in the construction hairy plumbing (see hairy). “You can kluge together a basic spell-checker out of sort(1), comm(1), and tr(1) with a little plumbing.” See also tee.

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