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Etymology edit

From fore- +‎ stream.

Noun edit

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)
    • 1956, Farm and Home News - Volumes 8-9:
      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.
    • 1961, Harvard University. East Asian Research Center, Papers on Japan - Volumes 1-3:
      Their training in English political theory and economics put them among "the forestream" of Japanese who dealt with national problems.
    • 1976, Med Biol Eng, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      The second derivative of the forestream signal marks exactly the beginning of the upstroke of the pulse wave.
    • 1993, Claus Simon, Wolfgang Stille, Peter J. Wilkinson, Antibiotic therapy in clinical practice:
      The white cell count of the forestream urine is higher than in the remainder. Urethritis can be due to meatal stenosis, foreign bodies, a tumour, a periurethral abscess or a diverticulum.
    • 1994, Journal of Turbomachinery - Volume 116:
      The transition models of both Mayle and Dunham are highly dependent on the forestream turbulence intensity.
    • 2002, Rosa K. Pawsey, Case Studies in Food Microbiology for Food Safety and Quality:
      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).
    • 2010, Deaconess Floria Alexander-Reindorf, I Exist in All Planes at the Same Time:
      When the forestream is clean, the water gushing out from it must certainly be clean.
    • 2012, W.F. List, J.S. Gravenstein, D.H. Spodick, Systolic Time Intervals:
      The preheated thermistor bead distal to the jet wascooled, i. e.,changed its electrical resistance, especially on the upstroke phase (the “forestream”) and changed the proximal bead with the collapsing phase of the pulse course immediately before incisura (the “backstream”).

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