STOVEPIPING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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)

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