streamers

Noun

streamer (plural streamers)

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
   • Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)

   Synonyms:

   banderole

2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
   • […] from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.2024 July 26, Arifa Akbar, “Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
3. A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
4. A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
5. Any mechanism for streaming data.
   • However, integration of a bandwidth estimation algorithm into an adaptive video streamer is not an easy task. Firstly, bandwidth estimation requires sending extra burst packets that brings a considerable overhead into the system.2004, Cevdet Aykanat, Tugrul Dayar, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, page 157
6. (Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
   • For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 01 Nov 2022

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