To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client
move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
If your eyes are streaming, liquid is coming from them, for example because you have a cold. You can also say that your nose is streaming. Her eyes were streaming now from the wind A cold usually starts with a streaming nose and dry throat
Data transmitted across a network and any properties associated with the data Streaming data allows the player to begin rendering the data immediately instead of waiting for the entire file to be downloaded
dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
a free-flowing body of water from the outlet of great pond or the confluence of two (2) perennial streams as depicted on the most recent edition of a United States Geological Survey 7 5 minute series topographic map, or if not available, a 15 minute series topographic map to the point where the body of water becomes a river
(1) A contiguous group of data elements being transmitted, or intended for transmission, in character or binary-digit form, using a defined format (2) A file access object that allows access to an ordered sequence of characters, as described by the ISO C standard A stream provides the additional services of user-selectable buffering and formatted input and output (3) In text processing, treating the entire text as a single string, even when the string is broken into lines for viewing purposes
A general term for a body of flowing water In hydrology the term is generally applied to the water flowing in a natural channel as distinct from a canal More generally as in the term stream gaging, it is applied to the water flowing in any channel, natural or artificial Streams in natural