forestream

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses)

   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.
   • Their training in English political theory and economics put them among "the forestream" of Japanese who dealt with national problems.
   • The second derivative of the forestream signal marks exactly the beginning of the upstroke of the pulse wave.

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