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n: thin-walled pipe of high tensile strength with a diameter of 20 inches (51 centimetres) or more.

n: (TAPS) the largest long-distance, big-inch pipe- line in the non-Communist world. Stretch- ing approximately 800 miles (1,288 kiIometres) from Deadhorse (near Prudhoe Bay) to Valdez, Alaska, the 48-inch pipeline was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion. Today, it transports from 1 million to 2 million barrels (159 million to 318 million litres) of oil a day from fields on the North Slope of Alaska to tank farms in Valdez.