| stream | To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears. "It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart." (Spenser) 2. To mark with colours or embroidery in long tracts. "The herald's mantle is streamed with gold." (Bacon) 3. To unfurl. To stream the buoy. See Buoy. 1. 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. "Beneath those banks where rivers stream." (Milton) 2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. "A thousand suns will stream on thee." (Tennyson) 3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. 4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind. Origin: Streamed; Streaming. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| stream class | Classification of streams based on the present and foreseeable uses made of the water, and the potential effects of on-site changes on downstream uses. Four classes are defined (05 Dec 1998) |
| stream-type fish | Fish that rear for a year or more in a stream. (09 Oct 1997) |
| streamer | 1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. "Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows." (Dryden) 3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. "While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot." (Lowell) 3. <chemical> A searcher for stream tin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| streaming | 1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams. 2. <chemical> The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| streaming movement | The form of movement characteristic of the protoplasm of leukocytes, amoebae, and other unicellular organisms; it involves the massing of the protoplasm at a point where surface pressure is least and its extrusion in the form of a pseudopod; the protoplasm may return to the body of the cell, resulting in the retraction of the pseudopod, or the entire mass may flow into the latter and thereby result in locomotion of the cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| two-stream amplifier | <radiobiology> Microwave amplifier based on the two-stream instability. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| two-stream instability | <radiobiology> Instability which can develop when a stream of particles of one type has a velocity distribution with its peak well separated from that of another type of particle through which it is flowing. A stream of energetic electrons passing through a cold plasma can, for example: excite ion waves which will grow rapidly in magnitude at the expense of the kinetic energy of the electrons. (09 Oct 1997) |