Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stovepiping

1 sense of stovepiping

Sense 1
stovepiping -- (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)
       => retrieval -- ((computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory)