Used in a Sentence

downstream

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for downstream.

Editorial note

If a flight of locks was completely opened, Gatún would promptly drain out of them, wiping out everything downstream.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech3

Quick take

To stream downward.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of downstream gathered in one view.

verb

To stream downward.

adjective

Toward the lower part of a stream; with the current (of a river, brook, or other flow of fluid).

adverb

Following the path of a river or stream.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for downstream.

verb

To stream downward.

adjective

Toward the lower part of a stream; with the current (of a river, brook, or other flow of fluid).

adverb

Following the path of a river or stream.

adjective

(computer networking) In the direction from the server to the client.

Example sentences

1

If a flight of locks was completely opened, Gatún would promptly drain out of them, wiping out everything downstream.

2

The fully developed NTPv4 implementation is intended for secondary servers with multiple upstream servers and multiple downstream servers or clients.

3

Very few companies that use academically produced bioinformatics software have downstream customers of that software.

4

I bet it'd be fun to just choose characters at random, with reckless disregard for inadvertent meanings downstream.

5

It's a huge bullet to byte if you think about the ethical implications downstream.

6

How clearly is the distinction between internals and interface communicated to downstream users?

7

In practice, with X-Forwarded-Proto, they don't, unless they can authenticate the downstream hop.

8

And the authentication layer is almost certainly downstream of the backend storage anyway, so I'm not sure how that would matter.

9

Do we have to realloc the bucket and move all downstream data down by one?

10

Since they are cited so often by downstream media, which is a major part of their business model, their content is--by its very nature--somewhat static.

11

I think automatically terminating downstream forks from the 'problem' without contact and taking several days to respond to support emails is more concerning.

12

The amount of chaos he produced downstream was unbelievable.

Quote examples

1

To be fair to Libav, due to being "downstream" FFmpeg has benefited greatly from their improvements, e.g.

2

Because I've been looking for a simple way to "inject" props downstream with pure components.

3

Interesting with the highlight of differences between "forward" and "backward" defined workflows (let data/tasks flow forward on success vs require some of the most downstream tasks or targets, and let the engine figure out upstream targets), as these have profound implications for how easy some workflow constructs are implemented.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use downstream in a sentence?

If a flight of locks was completely opened, Gatún would promptly drain out of them, wiping out everything downstream.

What does downstream mean?

To stream downward.

What part of speech is downstream?

downstream is commonly used as verb, adjective, adverb.