stream
Definitions
General English
- noun things which pass continuously
General Science
- noun a narrow and shallow river
Aviation
- noun a steady current of a fluid
Computing
- noun a long flow of serial data
Electronics
- A flow of data from a source to a destination, such as that between nodes in a network, or from a disk to RAM.
- A stream (1) which occurs in an uninterrupted manner over a communications channel. Also called data stream.
- The data being transmitted during streaming.
- A steady flow. Also, to produce a steady flow, or to flow in a steady manner.
Media Studies
- noun a video or audio broadcast made via the Internet or a computer network in real time
- verb to broadcast video, audio etc. material via the Internet or a computer network in real time
Publishing
- noun a mass of things such as people or traffic, all going in the same direction
Travel
- noun a small flow of water, a small river
Origin & History of “stream”
A stream is etymologically something that ‘flows’. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *straumaz (source also of German strom, Dutch stroom, Swedish ström, and Danish strøm). this in turn was derived from the Indo-European base *sreu- ‘flow’, which has also given English catarrh, diarrhoea, and rheumatism. Non-Germanic relatives of stream include polish strumyk ‘brook’ and Sanskrit srotas- ‘stream’.
