stream

Summary

stream ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,431 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• stream is a type of watercourse^[2].
• stream's Commons category is recorded as Streams^[3].
• stream's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[4].
• stream's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[5].
• stream's partially coincident with is recorded as river^[6].
• stream's partially coincident with is recorded as brook^[7].
• stream's topic has template is recorded as Template:Rivers, streams and springs^[8].
• stream's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Stream^[9].
• stream's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000023^[10].

Body

Definition and Type

stream is a type of watercourse^[2].

Influence

Things named for stream include March^[11], a calendar month^[12]; thread^[13], a computer science term^[14]; Shibuya Stream^[15], a building complex^[16], in Japan^[17]; Bach^[18], a family name^[19]; Bachmann^[20], a family name^[21]; and Potoční^[22], a former entity^[23], in Czech Republic^[24].

Why It Matters

stream ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,431 views/month).^[1] stream has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[25] stream is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[26]

Entities named for stream include March^[11], a calendar month^[12]; thread^[13], a computer science term^[14]; Shibuya Stream^[15], a building complex^[16], in Japan^[17]; Bach^[18], a family name^[19]; Bachmann^[20], a family name^[21]; and Potoční^[22], a former entity^[23], in Czech Republic^[24].