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Strays (2023 film)
Strays is a 2023 Universal R-rated live-action comedy about talking dogs, directed by Josh Greenbaum, written by Dan Perrault, starring voices of Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, distinct from the 2023 Netflix thriller The Strays.
Strays (TV series)
Strays is a Canadian CBC sitcom (2021-2022), a Kim's Convenience spin-off starring Nicole Power as Shannon Ross, executive director of the Hamilton East Animal Shelter; two seasons, 20 episodes, developed by Kevin White.
Stráže-Krakovany
Stráže-Krakovany: village of Krakovany and its part Stráže, Piešťany District, Slovakia; first recorded 1113 (Craco, Villa Spectaculi); merged 1943/44; famed for 3rd-century Germanic princely graves and the Stráže Treasure.
Streak artifact
A streak artifact is a spurious, poorly defined band of brightness in a CT image, radiating from dense structures like bone, metal implants, or contrast, sometimes rendering scans unusable.
Streaking
Streaking is running naked through a public place as a prank or stunt, a 1974 American college fad of over 1,000 recorded incidents, celebrated by Ray Stevens' "The Streak," studied as collective behavior, and now largely extinct at televised sporting events.
Streaking (microbiology)
Streaking (streak plate method) is a qualitative microbiology technique for isolating pure colonies from mixed cultures by diluting inoculum across agar with a sterile loop; unlike spread and pour plates it is not quantitative and uses one plate.
Stream
Stream: a body of flowing water in a defined channel, from headwater creeks to rivers (USGS FCode 46000). Covers streamflow, watersheds, sediment, classification systems, and restoration frameworks.
Stream bank
Stream bank: the sloping ground bordering a stream channel, also called streambank. Erodes by fluvial erosion and mass failure, measured as horizontal bank loss (cm/y), and is managed through stabilization practices like jetties and toe protection.
Stream bend
Stream bend (meander bend): a curve in a stream channel where faster outer flow erodes a cut bank while slower inner flow builds a point bar, driving lateral and downstream migration, cutoffs, and oxbow lakes; geometry follows a length-to-radius ratio near 4.7.
Stream buffer
A stream buffer is a small hardware prefetch buffer, proposed by Norman Jouppi in 1990, that holds cache lines fetched ahead of the processor's demands.
Stream capture
Stream capture, also called river capture or stream piracy, is the natural diversion of a stream's water into a neighboring drainage basin, reorganizing river networks.
Stream cipher
A stream cipher, also called a streaming cipher, is a symmetric encryption algorithm that encrypts data one bit or byte at a time using a keystream.
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable, message-oriented transport-layer protocol of the Internet protocol suite, offering multi-streaming and multi-homing; it carries telephony signaling and WebRTC data channels.
Stream function
The stream function, also known as Lagrange's streamfunction, is a scalar function in fluid dynamics whose derivatives give velocity components for two-dimensional incompressible flow, so continuity is satisfied automatically.
Stream gauge
A stream gauge is an installation on a river or stream that continuously records water-surface height, called stage, from which the flow volume, or discharge, is computed.
Stream metabolism
Stream metabolism is the combined rate of organic-carbon production and consumption in a stream, measured as gross primary production, ecosystem respiration, and net ecosystem production.
Stream mouth
Stream mouth (river mouth): the place where a stream or river discharges into a larger stream, lake, lagoon, reservoir, or the sea; the terminus where alluvium is deposited, forming deltas, mouth bars, and estuaries.
Stream of consciousness
Stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that presents a character's continuous, associative flow of thoughts and impressions. It was coined by William James in 1890.
Stream power
Stream power is the rate at which a river expends energy, especially in transporting its sediment load, and underlies sediment transport theory, channel classification, and models of river incision.
Stream processing
Stream processing: continuous computation over unbounded data streams as records arrive, distinct from batch processing. Also called data stream processing. Key concepts: windows, watermarks, event time, state, exactly-once guarantees; systems include Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming.
Stream-table duality
Stream-table duality: the principle that a data stream and a table are two views of the same data, formalized by Jay Kreps for Kafka. A stream is a table's changelog; a table is a stream's latest-value snapshot. Basis of CDC, log compaction, and KStream/KTable.
Streamer discharge
A streamer discharge is a transient gas discharge in which a thin, cold plasma channel grows through a gas as a propagating ionization front, forming the precursors of sparks and lightning.
Streamer University
Streamer University (Streamer U) is Kai Cenat's free, invitation-only, livestreamed creator bootcamp: 120 students per cohort, first held at the University of Akron in 2025, then Hendrix College in 2026, with a European Class of 2027 announced.
Streamflow reconstruction
Streamflow reconstruction is a paleohydrology method that uses tree-ring chronologies, calibrated against gauge records, to estimate annual river flows back over a thousand years, helping water managers assess drought risk.
Streaming algorithm
A streaming algorithm computes a function of a long data sequence in one pass, keeping a small summary called a sketch and returning an approximate answer.
Streaming database
Streaming database: a database whose tables are maintained continuously from event streams via registered materialized views, rooted in 1992 Tapestry continuous queries; computes results on write, unlike OLAP stores and batch warehouses.
Streaming media
Streaming media, also called online streaming, delivers video or audio over a network so playback starts before the full file transfers, covering on-demand libraries and live events.
Streaming model (algorithms)
The streaming model is a computational model where input arrives as a sequential stream and an algorithm with small memory processes it in one or a few passes.
Streaming party
A streaming party, known in Korean fandom slang as chonggong, is an organized K-pop fan campaign that mass-streams a song or video to push it up music charts.
Streaming SIMD Extensions
Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an x86 SIMD instruction set extension Intel introduced with the Pentium III in 1999, adding 70 instructions and eight 128-bit XMM registers.