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The primary meaning of stream is a body of water, confined within a bed and banks and having a detectable current. Stream is the umbrella term used in the scientific community for all flowing natural waters.

By extension, a stream is any steady flow or succession of material. It could be water, air, radio signal, words (as in "a stream of abuse") etc.. The word has also some specialized senses:

• streaming media is a way of delivering radio and television over the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu.
• High speed streams of air in the upper atmosphere are called jet streamJet streams are fast flowing, confined air currents found in the atmosphere at around 12 km above the surface of the Earth, just under the tropopause. They form at the boundaries of adjacent air masses with significant differences in temperature, such ass.
• Ocean currents are sometimes referred to as streams, e.g. the Gulf StreamThe Gulf Stream also known as the North Atlantic Drift is a powerful warm, swift Atlantic ocean current that flows along the coast of the Eastern United States and makes Ireland, Great Britain, and the Scandinavian countries warmer than they would be othe.
• standard streamsThe standard streams are a set of input and output channels featured in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. They consist of three channels through which data can be passed to or from a program: Standard input Standard input is the input stream into whic is a computing term.