flowline
noun
flowline is a noun meaning “A large-diameter pipe that carries oil from the seabed to a drilling rig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-W-L-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flowline is flowlines.
What does flowline mean?
noun
- 1
A large-diameter pipe that carries oil from the seabed to a drilling rig.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flowline
- flowlines plural
- flow line
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flowline?
Flowline appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flowline come from?
From flow + line.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).