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STOVEPIPING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stovepiping mean?
• STOVEPIPING (noun)
The noun STOVEPIPING has 1 sense:
1. retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers
Familiarity information: STOVEPIPING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("stovepiping" is a kind of...):
retrieval ((computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory)
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