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 

• STOVEPIPING (noun)

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)