streaming

comparative more streaming · superlative most streaming

1. Flowing or moving in continuous succession, like fluid in a stream.

   Synonyms: fluent, onrushing, flowing, fluent, fluid, fluminous, fluxive, free-flowing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of stream

plural streamings

1. uncountableusuallyMovement as a stream.
2. uncountableusuallycomputingThe transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.

   The entertainment industry is trying to figure out the economics of streaming. It’s also facing angst over a tech-powered future and fighting to stay culturally dominant.

   2023 July 15, Brooks Barnes, “In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   1 more example

   Streaming has a dirty secret. The carbon footprint produced by fans watching a month of Netflix’s top 10 global TV hits is equivalent to driving a car a hefty distance beyond Saturn.

   2021 October 29, Mark Sweney, “Streaming’s dirty secret: how viewing Netflix top 10 creates vast quantity of CO2”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

3. InternetuncountableusuallySynonym of livestreaming.

   Synonyms: livestreaming

4. UKuncountableusuallyeducationDivision of classes into academic streams.

   Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

   2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30

   Synonyms: tracking

5. uncountableusuallyThe working of alluvial deposits to obtain ore.