Stream

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A stream is a, generally smaller, moving body of water, such as a creek or a river. Additionally, by analogy, stream may mean a flow of any fluid.

Stream may also refer to:

• Stream (computing), succession of data elements supplied over time.
• Streams (networking API), a computer programming interface for implementing network devices on Unix System V.
• AMD Stream, a GPGPU interface for programming AMD graphics cards.
• Planet Stream, fictional planet in the Star Ocean universe.
• Stellar stream, association of stars orbiting a galaxy.
• Stream (film), 2009 short film with William Sadler and Whoopi Goldberg.
• "The Stream", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel.
• Stream Global Services, a business process outsourcing company.
• Honda Stream, an automobile.

Streaming may refer to:

• Streaming (education), grouping students of similar academic ability.
• Streaming media, multimedia data transferred in a stream of packets that are interpreted and rendered, in real time, by a software application as the packets arrive.
• Dynamic data, data that is asynchronously changed as further updates to information become available.
• Cyclosis, protoplasmic streaming within a cell.

See also

• Streamer
• Red5 Streaming server

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