Usually means: Inter-process communication channel, filesystem-based.
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  1. named pipe: Wiktionary
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  3. Named pipe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. named pipe: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. named pipe: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (named pipe)

noun:  (computing) An extension to the anonymous pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.

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