Explanation STREAM: (1) (n.) A continuous flow of data (especially audio or video) over a transmission channel that can be interpreted as it is received, often for playback in real time. In audio, the packet boundaries used for encoding in a particular audio format may not coincide with transmission packet boundaries. (2) (v.) To send data as a stream. See also audio file stream , parser , TCP stream
More definitions for Mac OS users such as stream in Dictionary S.
- Help Splitter Bar:
- Usage A control for dividing a window into resizable sections stream definition.
- Help Storage Order:
- Usage The order in which character codes are stored in memory. Storage order may be different from display order stream explain.
- Help Scroll Arrows:
- Usage Small buttons that appear on the scroll control that let the user incrementally advance the scrollers without dragging stream what is.
- Help Speech Attribute:
- Usage A setting defined on a speech channel that affects the characteristics of the spoken output for a subset of voices or for all voices associated with a particular synthesizer stream meaning.
- Help S/PDIF:
- Usage Sony/Phillips Digital Interface. A consumer version of, and the inspiration for, the AES-3 format. Part of the IEC-60958 standard. Devices such as CD players and DAT recorders use S/PDIF stream abbreviation.
