| 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) |
| two-stream amplifier | <radiobiology> Microwave amplifier based on the two-stream instability. (09 Oct 1997) |
| 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) |
| clouding of consciousness | A state in which the patient's mental state is clouded and thus not fully in contact with the environment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| consciousness | Sense of awareness of self and of the environment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| consciousness disorders | Organic mental disorders in which there is marked impairment of awareness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| double consciousness | A condition in which one lives in two seemingly unrelated mental states, being, while in one, unaware of the other or of the acts performed in the other. See: dual personality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| threshold of consciousness | The lowest point at which a stimulus sensation can be perceived. (05 Mar 2000) |
| field of consciousness | The content of awareness at any given moment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loss of consciousness | Total unresponsiveness. An important neurologic sign. (27 Sep 1997) |