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forestream

forestream noun: the initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses); a stream occurring at the ahead or front (of a thing).

Noun

forestream (plural forestreams)

  1. The initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses); a stream occurring at the ahead or front (of a thing)
    • With strip cup eliminate the forestreams of each teat to detect abnormal milk, to be assured of let-down of milk, and to reduce bacterial count of milk.1956, Farm and Home News - Volumes 8-9
    • Their training in English political theory and economics put them among "the forestream" of Japanese who dealt with national problems.1961, Harvard University. East Asian Research Center, Papers on Japan - Volumes 1-3

Examples of forestream in a sentence

  • The second derivative of the forestream signal marks exactly the beginning of the upstroke of the pulse wave.1976, Med Biol Eng, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  • The white cell count of the forestream urine is higher than in the remainder.1993, Claus Simon, Wolfgang Stille, Peter J. Wilkinson, Antibiotic therapy in clinical practice:
  • The transition models of both Mayle and Dunham are highly dependent on the forestream turbulence intensity.1994, Journal of Turbomachinery - Volume 116
  • Furthermore sometimes E. coli O157:H7 can enter milk directly from the [infected] udder, or from the teat duct in the forestream of milk (Wright et al., 1994).2002, Rosa K. Pawsey, Case Studies in Food Microbiology for Food Safety and Quality:

Forms of forestream

pluralforestreams

Origin of forestream

From fore- + stream.

Questions about forestream

What does forestream mean?
Forestream means the initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses); a stream occurring at the ahead or front (of a thing).
How do you use forestream in a sentence?
The second derivative of the forestream signal marks exactly the beginning of the upstroke of the pulse wave.
What part of speech is forestream?
Forestream is a noun.
What is the plural of forestream?
The plural of forestream is forestreams.

Words near forestream in the dictionary

  1. forestones
  2. forestories
  3. forestory
  4. forestrand
  5. forestrands
  6. forestream
  7. forestreams
  8. forestress
  9. forestresses
  10. forestretch
  11. forestries

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