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stream, general term applied to all bodies of water flowing in channels regardless of their size. See river river, stream of water larger than a brook or creek. Land surfaces are never perfectly flat, and as a result the runoff after precipitation tends to flow downward by the shortest and steepest course in depressions formed by the intersection of slopes.
..... Click the link for more information. ; flood flood, inundation of land by the rise and overflow of a body of water. Floods occur most commonly when water from heavy rainfall, from melting ice and snow, or from a combination of these exceeds the carrying capacity of the river system, lake, or ocean into which it
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(1) The continuous flow of data from one place to another.

(2) Any contiguous group of bytes or chunk/block of data.

(3) To transmit data over a network. It implies sending an entire file.

(4) To play live or on-demand audio and video from an IP-based network server. See streaming audio and streaming video.

(5) The I/O management in the C programming language. A stream is a channel through which data flows to/from a disk, keyboard, printer, etc.

(6) The data part of a Structured Storage file. See Structured Storage.

1.		STREAM - ["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987].
2.	(communications)	stream - 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.
3.	(programming)	stream - In the C language's 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.
4.	(operating system)	stream - Confusingly, Sun have called their modular device driver mechanism "STREAMS".
5.	(operating system)	stream - In IBM's 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].
6.	(communications)	stream - streaming.
7.	(programming)	stream - lazy list.

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