meaning of stream

1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc. , or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
2. A beam or ray of light.
3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
6. To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
7. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
8. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
9. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
10. To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
11. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
12. To unfurl.
13. STREAM ["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital Circuits", C. D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987].
14. stream 1. An abstraction referring to any flow of data from a source or sender, producer to a single sink or receiver, consumer. A stream usually flows through a channel of some kind, as opposed to packets which may be addressed and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients. Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a channel or a "connection" between the sender and receiver. 2. In the C languages buffered input/ouput library functions, a stream is associated with a file or device which has been opened using fopen. Characters may be read from written to a stream without knowing their actual source destination and buffering is provided transparently by the library routines. 3. system> Confusingly, Sun have called their modular device driver mechanism "STREAMS". 4. system> In IBMs AIX operating system, a stream is a full-duplex processing and data transfer path between a driver in kernel space and a process in user space. [IBM AIX 3. 2 Communication Programming Concepts, SC23-2206-03]. 5. streaming. 6. lazy list.
15. the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

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