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1. streams

   A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are usually called rivers, while smaller, less voluminous and more intermittent streams are known as streamlets, brooks or creeks. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface runoff (from precipitation or meltwater), daylighted subterranean water, and surfaced groundwater (spring water). The surface and subterranean water are highly variable between periods of rainfall. Groundwater, on the other hand, has a relatively constant input and is controlled more by long-term patterns of precipitation. The stream encompasses surface, subsurface and groundwater fluxes that respond to geological, geomorphological, hydrological and biotic controls.Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, and corridors for fish and wildlife migration. The biological habitat in the immediate vicinity of a stream is called a riparian zone. Given the status of the ongoing Holocene extinction, streams play an important corridor role in connecting fragmented habitats and thus in conserving biodiversity. The study of streams and waterways in general is known as surface hydrology and is a core element of environmental geography.

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1. STREAMS

   In computer networking, STREAMS is the native framework in Unix System V for implementing character devices. STREAMS's design is a modular architecture for implementing full-duplex I/O between kernel or user space processes and between device drivers. Its most frequent uses have been in developing terminal I/O and networking subsystems. In System V Release 4, the entire terminal interface was reimplemented using STREAMS. An important concept in STREAMS is the ability to push drivers — custom code modules which can modify the functionality of a network interface or other device — together to form a stack. Several of these drivers can be chained together in order.

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1. streamsnoun

   Plural noun of the word stream.

   The mountains and valleys have many streams that run through them all and merge at different points in the river that they all connect to.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on June 17, 2016  

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1. STREAMS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Streams is ranked #76275 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Streams surname appeared 252 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Streams.
   
   64.2% or 162 total occurrences were White.
   34.1% or 86 total occurrences were Black.

Anagrams for streams »

1. remasts

2. masters

3. Masters

4. master's

5. matress

How to pronounce streams?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say streams in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of streams in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of streams in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of streams in a Sentence

1. Alexander Suturin:

   As soon as the storage ponds overflow, streams run into Lake Baikal, secondly, there is a large amount of accumulated waste water sitting under the site. When the plant was operating, the water was pumped out and discharged to treatment facilities, now there are no treatment facilities, but the contamination remains and is leaking into Lake Baikal.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   a beautiful girl spoke to me today thru little honey’d whispers dreaming icicles streams of words mouth moving saying much in little tones traveling passionately into distant lands far off hopes stranger’s arms a hoped-for death told her secret

3. Peter Goelz:

   This is a fairly simple external device that can get damaged on a regular basis, that's important because Ethiopian Airlines made the decision to rely on them as single sources for streams of data.

4. Elizabeth Warren:

   The estimates on the cost of Medicare Advantage vary by trillions and trillions of dollars. And the different revenue streams for how to pay for it are many.

5. National Weather Service:

   Everyone with property or other interest along streams and rivers should remain alert to changing weather forecast.

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