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.
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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. | |