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Stream capture — Stream capture, river capture, or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows instead down the bed of a neighbouring stream. This can happen… … Wikipedia
stream capture — the process by which the range of a species is extended through the switch of the flow of a stream or a part of a stream from one drainage basin to another … Dictionary of ichthyology
stream capture — noun : capture 3 * * * Geol. piracy (def. 3) … Useful english dictionary
stream piracy — stream capture … Dictionary of ichthyology
Stream recorder — Stream recorder, also called a stream ripper, is a computer program capable of saving a data stream – particularly streaming media such as encoded music or video – to a file, instead of playing it right away. The process is sometimes referred to… … Wikipedia
Stream processing — is a computer programming paradigm, related to SIMD, that allows some applications to more easily exploit a limited form of parallel processing. Such applications can use multiple computational units, such as the floating point units on a GPU,… … Wikipedia
stream of consciousness — 1. Psychol. thought regarded as a succession of ideas and images constantly moving forward in time. 2. See interior monologue. [1885 90] * * * Narrative technique in nondramatic fiction intended to render the flow of myriad impressions visual,… … Universalium
capture — v. & n. v.tr. 1 a take prisoner; seize as a prize. b obtain by force or trickery. 2 portray in permanent form (could not capture the likeness). 3 Physics absorb (a subatomic particle). 4 (in board games) make a move that secures the removal of… … Useful english dictionary
Capture of Fort Niagara — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Capture of Fort Niagara caption= partof=War of 1812 date=December 19, 1813 place=Fort Niagara, Niagara River, near Youngstown, New York result=British victory combatant1=Great Britain combatant2=United States… … Wikipedia
capture — diversion of water flow in the upper reaches of a stream by the headward growth of another stream … Dictionary of ichthyology
