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stream, general term applied to all bodies of water flowing in channels regardless of their size. See river; flood.

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stream

(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, streaming video and home theater streaming.

(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.

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stream

1. a small river; brook

2. Brit any of several parallel classes of schoolchildren, or divisions of children within a class, grouped together because of similar ability

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stream [strēm]

(computer science)

A collection of binary digits that are transmitted in a continuous sequence, and from which extraneous data such as control information or parity bits are excluded.

(hydrology)

A body of running water moving under the influence of gravity to lower levels in a narrow, clearly defined natural channel.

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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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Stream 

a term designating all flowing bodies of water, including rivers, mountain streams, brooks formed by rain storms and thaws, and channels, regardless of size and origin. Streams flow over more or less erodable soils, forming a bed or channel. The characteristics of the channel depend on the specific features of the stream, including flow rate, flow velocities, and slope, and also on the properties of the soil. A stream is characterized by fluviomorphological processes, which cause the channel to meander.