What (who) is stream - definition

MEASURE OF THE AMOUNT OF DATA TRANSFERRED PER UNIT TIME

Memory Bandwidth; STREAM

stream

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Creek (stream); Watercourse; Streams; Rivulet; Ephemeral river; Ephemeral stream; Creek (waterway); Water streams; Creek (water); Torrent (stream); Ruisseau; Creaklet; Streamlet; Ruisseaux; Ribbon (hydrology); Stream corridor; Riverlet; River's course; Ephemeral streams; Intermittent streams; Brook (small stream); Watercourses

¦ noun

1. a small, narrow river.

2. a continuous flow of liquid, air, gas, people, or things.

3. Brit. a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.

¦ verb

1. (of liquid) run in a continuous flow.

(of a mass of people or things) move in a continuous flow.

2. run with tears, sweat, or other liquid.

3. float at full extent in the wind.

4. Brit. put (schoolchildren) in streams.

Phrases

against (or with) the stream against (or with) the prevailing view or tendency.

on stream in or into operation or existence.

Derivatives

streamlet noun

Origin

OE stream (n.), of Gmc origin.

Stream

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·noun A beam or ray of light.

II. Stream ·vt To Unfurl.

III. Stream ·vi To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

IV. Stream ·vt To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

V. Stream ·noun A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.

VI. Stream ·vi To issue in a stream of light; to Radiate.

VII. Stream ·noun Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.

VIII. Stream ·noun Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.

IX. Stream ·vt To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to Pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

X. Stream ·vi To Extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

XI. Stream ·vi To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.

XII. Stream ·noun A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, ·etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

stream

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1. <communications> 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. 2. <programming> 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. 3. <operating system> Confusingly, Sun have called their modular device driver mechanism "STREAMS". 4. <operating system> 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]. 5. <communications> streaming. 6. <programming> lazy list. (1996-11-06)

Wikipedia

Memory bandwidth

Memory bandwidth is the rate at which data can be read from or stored into a semiconductor memory by a processor. Memory bandwidth is usually expressed in units of bytes/second, though this can vary for systems with natural data sizes that are not a multiple of the commonly used 8-bit bytes.

Memory bandwidth that is advertised for a given memory or system is usually the maximum theoretical bandwidth. In practice the observed memory bandwidth will be less than (and is guaranteed not to exceed) the advertised bandwidth. A variety of computer benchmarks exist to measure sustained memory bandwidth using a variety of access patterns. These are intended to provide insight into the memory bandwidth that a system should sustain on various classes of real applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory bandwidth

Pronunciation examples for stream

1. stream--

Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook _ Dana Gunders _ Talks at Google

2. stream.

The Yoga of Max's Discontent _ Karan Bajaj _ Talks at Google

3. stream.

Hit Makers - The Science of Popularity _ Derek Thompson _ Talks at Google

4. both on stream and off stream.

Critical Role _ Matthew Mercer + More _ Talks at Google

5. stream, the c the jet stream.

Around the World in a Solar Airplane _ Andre Borschberg & Bertrand Piccard _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of stream

1. Similarly, at Sukkur Barrage, the up–stream discharge was 2,57,7'3 cusecs and 2,06,388 cusecs down–stream.

2. Meanwhile, the contaminated water of the lower–stream is displaced with the fresh water of the upper–stream in spring.

3. Saudi Aramco is bringing on stream the 1.2 million bpd Al–Khurais on stream next year, entirely on its own.

4. Though knee–deep snow is heaped on the banks of the stream, the Sobaek Stream with the headspring in Mt.

5. The permanent bridge that had spanned the stream and carried the bus over the stream collapsed in the earthquake.