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(1) To transmit live or on-demand audio or video from a public or private network to the user. See streaming. (2) The continuous flow of data from one place to another. (3) Any contiguous group...
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Definition: stream
(1) To transmit live or on-demand audio or video from a public or private network to the user. See streaming.
(2) The continuous flow of data from one place to another.
(3) Any contiguous group of bytes or chunk/block of data.
(4) An occasional synonym for "transmit;" to send data over a network.
(5) The I/O management in the C programming language. A stream is a channel through which data flows to/from a disk, keyboard, printer, etc.
(6) The data part of a Structured Storage file. See Structured Storage.
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