A connection used to transfer data between separate processes to incorporate Inter Process Communication, usually on separate computers and are special files placed in the /dev directory;
It is a pipe that an application opens by name in order to write data into or read data from the pipe.
A named pipe is an extension of the concept ‘pipe’ in multitasking operating system. Inter process communication is implemented using a named pipe. A pipe / traditional pipe is unnamed. The reason is it persists as long as the process is executing. Where as a named pipe is system-persistent and exists more than a process running time. It can be removed if not required in future.