Definition of "stream" []

• A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river. (noun)
• A steady current in such a flow of water. (noun)
• A steady current of a fluid. (noun)
• A steady flow or succession: a stream of insults. See Synonyms at flow. (noun)
• A trend, course, or drift, as of opinion, thought, or history. (noun)

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• "That half-way law applies if the stream is a property boundary"
• "We observe, e.g., that a cognition which has the form of a jar (i.e. the idea of a jar) gives rise to the cognition of the two halves of a jar, and is itself preceded and produced by the cognition of a jar, and this again by a similar cognition, and so on; this is what we call a stream or flow of ideas."
• "Fumo talked to the judge for an hour Thursday in what he called a "stream of consciousness" essay."