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means Watching or listening to video or audio that plays over the internet in real time rather than being downloaded and stored as a file.

from From Old English 'stream,' meaning a flowing body of water — the sense extended naturally to anything flowing continuously, like light, people, or data. By the late 20th century, engineers borrowed the watery metaphor for audio and video sent over networks in a continuous flow rather than delivered all at once, since the data arrives and plays in a steady current instead of landing as a single finished file.