streams

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  1. noun A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river.
  2. noun A steady current in such a flow of water.
  3. noun A steady current of a fluid.

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  • The groves of timber along the streams were always waiting; but, we only could use them in fair and pleasant weather, and for six months in the year. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
  • Such incremental enrichment of data streams is at the heart of almost all text-mining processes today. —  DevX: Latest Published Articles
  • I love the internet radio on the ATV, although some of the streams are a little poor on quality. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • A symposium intended to let all stakeholders voice their opinions about the controversial black fly spraying program in three southern West Virginia streams is being arranged by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
  • The significant advance, says Nagui Halim, chief scientist of the stream-computing project at IBM, is that the engineers optimized the software to run on Blue Gene / P so that the data streams were analyzed faster than possible on other financial-analysis systems. —  Technology Review RSS Feeds
 

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