Definition: streaming

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

streaming
     adj 1: exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts: "his streaming
            face"; "her streaming eyes"
     2: moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through
        the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the
        concert hall" [syn: flowing]
     3: (of liquids) moving freely; "a flowing brook" [syn: flowing]
     n : the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell [syn: cyclosis]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stream \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Streamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Streaming.]
   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.

Streaming \Stream"ing\, a.
   Sending forth streams.

Streaming \Stream"ing\, n.
   1. The act or operation of that which streams; the act of
      that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.

   2. (Mining) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for
      stream tin.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)

streaming

   <communications> Playing sound or video in real time as
   it is downloaded over the Internet as opposed to storing it
   in a local file first.  A plug-in to a web browser such as
   Netscape Navigator decompresses and plays the data as it is
   transferred to your computer over the World-Wide Web.
   Streaming audio or video avoids the delay entailed in
   downloading an entire file and then playing it with a helper
   application.  Streaming requires a fast connection and a
   computer powerful enough to execute the decompression
   algorithm in real time.

   (1996-11-06)