Stream (disambiguation)
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A stream
Stream
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...

is a body of water.

Stream may also refer to:

Technology

  • Stream (computing), a sequence of data elements made available over time
    • Streaming media
      Streaming media
      Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...

      , multimedia streamed to an end-user
  • STREAMS
    STREAMS
    In computer networking, STREAMS is the native framework in Unix System V for implementing character devices.STREAMS was designed as a modular architecture for implementing full-duplex I/O between kernel or user space processes and device drivers. Its most frequent uses have been in developing...

    , a Unix System V framework
  • Stream processing
    Stream processing
    Stream processing is a computer programming paradigm, related to SIMD , that allows some applications to more easily exploit a limited form of parallel processing...

    , a computer programming paradigm
  • Stream unconference
    Stream unconference
    -What is Stream: is a series of digital unconferences hosted by and run by volunteers. The global event takes place early autumn each year and brings together over three hundred of the brightest and most innovative people in the creative, media and technology industries. Attendees discuss, debate,...


Other uses

  • Streaming (education), grouping students by academic ability
  • Stream Global Services
    Stream Global Services
    Stream Global Services, Inc. is a global outsourcing solution provider, providing BPO services for Fortune 1000 clients , with more than 30,000 employees in 50 service centers of 22 countries in 50 contact centers; it currently manages more than 100 million voice, e-mail, and chat contacts a...

    , an outsourcing company
  • Cytoplasmic streaming
    Cytoplasmic streaming
    Cytoplasmic streaming is the directed flow of cytosol and organelles around large fungal and plant cells. This movement aids in the delivery of nutrients, metabolites, genetic information, and other materials to all parts of the cell...

    , a cellular process
  • Honda Stream
    Honda Stream
    The Honda Stream is a compact MPV manufactured by the Japanese automaker Honda since 2001. Japanese models have gasoline direct injection 1.7 L and 2.0 L engines with improved fuel efficiency...

    , a car
  • Stellar stream
    Stellar stream
    This is a list of stellar streams. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy that was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has now been torn apart and stretched out along its orbit by tidal forces...

    , an association of stars orbiting a galaxy
  • Stream, a film featuring Whoopi Goldberg
    Whoopi Goldberg
    Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...

  • "The Stream," a poem by Patti Smith in the book Babel
    Babel (book)
    Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.- Radio Ethiopia :# "Notice"# "Italy"# "The Tapper Extracts"# "Grant"# "Street of the Guides"# "Rimbaud Dead"# "Sohl"...

  • The flow of any fluid
    Fluid
    In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms under an applied shear stress. Fluids are a subset of the phases of matter and include liquids, gases, plasmas and, to some extent, plastic solids....


See also

  • Streamer (disambiguation)
  • Spurt (disambiguation)
  • Squirt (disambiguation)
    Squirt (disambiguation)
    Squirt or squirting can refer to the following:* A small, quick stream; a jet** Blood squirt* Squirt, slang for a small thing or person** Squirt division, the under-10 level of youth ice hockey in North America...

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